When I was 11 years old (1941!) I saved my allowance and baby sitting money and bought a used Brown D from Polk's in New York.
It took me several months to figure out how to make it run - but when I got the coil, condenser and batteries all sorted out plus finally got some fuel (naptha and SAE 70 - 3 to 1, gas rationing, you know!) as soon as I heard that first BRRRRPPP! I was hooked for life. Finally lost it on an O.O.S. flight in a Berkeley Bucaneer a few years later. I cried for a week, until my Dad came home with a new Ohlsson 60!

Oh yeah, Free flight - like RC but without the inconvenience of a radio!

Phil Heller