RE: What was your first engine?
RJ, the Goldberg Zing is the one you were thinking of.....solid carved fuselage, with the inside routed out, and indeed, the bellcrank mounted on the wing tip, with a cable that ran through a tube down the wing and back down the fuselage to the elevators. Went pretty well with the K&B .29 on ignition, and would have been great with glow power, but mine was worn out before the glow plug came out.
And RJ and I are glad that we made some of you "youngsters" day!
Clair