Yes, I can assure you, we had fun with these single channel, rubber band powered, escapements. I still remember my dad counting the turns on the home made crank used to wind the rubber band to power the escapements. 100 turns would be enough for one small tank of fuel. I still have the Radio, which my dad build, the escapement, and the NoMad glider I was trained on. I was 8ys old. When my dad bought his first reed multi-channel radio, we were in hog heaven. Installed this in a Smog Hog and was the terror of the skies. Flew reeds until he could afford his first proportional system. Orbit, 4 channel system. This was the radio of the day, along with F&M and Heath Kits. As I Remember, the Heath Kits did not perform very well. I still have the Orbit transmitter, yet the airborn pak was lost with the plane. The Orbit was installed in a Tarus. During a fly-in at our home field in Aiken, my dad was showing off doing loops. This was ok, until the 5th loop, when a water tower got in his way. As you know, balsa wood, silkspan and dope, do not stand a chance against a steel water tower. We never found the engine. We can only assume that the brand new Veco 45 was stuck in the tower. Lots of memories of the old days, and the fun my family had with R/C.