Ok ... since everyone else is being reminiscent about Skylarks of old ... and since I brought up the thought of "adventures of yesteryear" ... I had better add my two pennies worth:

I learned to fly {all alone .. no other R/C flyers) in the wilds of northeastern Thailand {Nakon Phanom}during the early 1970's. Finally convinced the airbase PX to carry some r/c kits ... and the CG Skylark was among those that they "imported" from the states.

Our flying field was the Thai provincal governor's dirt air strip only a few hundred yards from the Mekong River border with Laos. R/C activities were ocasionally suspended while we watched the Royal Lao AF AT-6's conduct airstrikes against the Pathet Lao troops which held the opposite bank of the river. We also had to clear the strip when the irregularly scheduled Air America C-47 made landings to drop off "supplies" to the local CIA station .... he would buzz the field and we would scramble out of the way.

But the most dangerous hazzard was a herd of water buffalo that called the strip their home ... and also their bathroom. Couldn't concentrate too hard on the bird in the sky ... or else the "squeesh" sound would signify that you had "stepped in it" ... again !!

Bob S