Great to see this thread resurrected. Love the comments about handling, particularly about it landing itself. I still get told this folklore as a point of fact. I gather it may have done once, when it was much lighter and had a longer fin. But after it was shortened to prevent the tail-plane from dropping off, this changed. It was quite challenging to fly, especially in the landing. And once you were on the ground, the next real adventure of stopping the thing began as it had the same brakes as a Morris Minor!
Glad I flew it though. And it's a great talking point when asked what I used to fly on long boring airliner flights. None of my FOs know what it is, so I have to show them a picture. "What the F#ck!" is the usual response.