Man, does this thread bring back memories! I started my love affair with planes when I found an old Testors CL plane in the attic. Tried for days to get the engine to run, but could never get more than a few pops out of it. Finally persuaded my parents to buy me a Cox PT-19 and was amazed that the little .049 started on the first try! Flew that for a while and got the Messerschmidt. Loved it, but it was hard to keep the wings on becaue the tape holding them kept coming loose. First balsa plane was the Lil Wizard, followed by the Lil Jumping Bean. That one was a handfull! Graduated to my first 'big' plane with the Goldberg Whitman Buster with a Fox 35 or 36, can't remember which was first. . Loved that one. I bet I reglued the tail on it 100 times! After that it was a string of planes, includine Flite Streaks, Sig Mustang and Chipmunk, Goldberg combat plane (Nemisis?), some V-tail thing that I can't remember who made, and finally a Nobler. About that time was when I moved to RC. Haven't flown C/L in over 35 years. Kinda miss those days!