RE: Extreme speed 1966 style
My brother built several radio sets in the '60's, as an electronic eng student and general radio buff. Push button escapement, reed sets, forget what else. It was his constant experimenting and fiddling with airplanes and other things that got me hooked on models as a kid - things like .010 free flights, single channel Tomboys, a lot of Jetex (I was an addict for years), and a "free flight" glassed foam airboat with an ST .56 open exhaust up top. FF boats go in large circles.. which tends to bring them right back to the launch point. I recall several times dodging madly looping overpowered Babe Bee powered FF sheet balsa models. When I moved back into this area in about '93, I was lucky enough to meet a veteran FF modeler and get to know him for a couple of years. He flew competitively in the '50's and '60's, and his stick and tissue work was absolutely primo. A real enthusiast, anything that flew was interesting to him. He passed away in '95, I have a few mementos.