Testor's SBD Dauntless W/an .049 Wen Mac. It had a bomb that dropped & that was why I HAD to have it!

It flew like a turd.

I then graduated to a balsa profile W/a built up semetrical wing & a Cox .049. That sucker really flew!.. I built several Sterling & SIG 1/2A C/L planes after that.

My last C/L airplane (about 1969) was a 34" WS "Flying Fool" biplane W/a .29 McCoy "Red Head". It few well but I tried to get in 1 more flight as a thunderstorm aproached. I got caught in the air when the winds picked up. I saved it once by running backwards as the wind blew slack in the lines. On the next go-round it blew clean over my head & went straight in.

Oh, I did have a Red Baron version of the "Lil Stinker" W/the Cox .020 Baby Bee @ about the same time. I could fly it off the drive way in the front yard. 20' lines if I remember correctly.