Whats the worst flying plane you ever had your hands on??
A museum scale Waco bipe, terribly overweight, and equally underpowered with a Veco .61 (sorry Clarence) built and owned by the owner of Topping Models ---(built desktop scale models for military desktops at the Pentagon (a fact). Not only that, but this was the day when the best equipment you could buy was an Orbit 10 channel with a Medco reed bank: Bonner Transmites, and a nicad pack, switch harness, and Brunner servo plugs were "extras" not installed, sold or assembled by the radio Mfgr. ( any of them).
.---if you couldn't solder you very simply crashed.
It required a freshly mowed field, at least a 5 knot wind and quartering the aircraft to the wind to prevent badly dropping a tip on takeoff torque due to the short scale span and scale airfoil of the bipe. After you worried it into the air and prayed yourself to enough altitude, it wasn't half bad.
Landing was a "get it right the first time because there was no go around" !
I was the "elected " pilot to get his thing up and down in one piece. We managed about 6 or seven flights over a two week period before I finally talked the owner-builder into retiring it to its rightful place as a display object. Fortunately with flight photos showing it in flight trim.
A handful by anyones definition. By the grace of God we didn't pit a scratch on it.