In the same time frame as LOUW of Moreland Ga.
My plane was a tried FREE FLIGHT of British design, the TOMBOY, very similar to the Miss America, running a DIESEL "Oliver" and an excellent Free Flyer of the "CABIN TYPE"
Around 1956 or so I purchased in AHC in NYC a C&S escapement system and in a communal effort with a group of U/C flyers we were able to get the plane to carry the batterys ( the big problem of that time was that weight)'ONLY THE RUDDER MOVED...no elevator, no throttle, no ailerons at all.While the motor run it was a perpetual climb, broken by the "turn"
We got LEFT and RIGHT and that alone was close to a miracle !
We were able to land back close to where we launched..... In 1966 emigrated to the USA and have been flying RC ever since.First real full house flight was in Dallas with a high wing and a Kraft system (or was it an EK ? ) I forget. Missed the REEDS system by some months. Proportional was just coming into its own, for the masses