Red,
I am not as old as you but one of my first introductions to aeromodeling was by the father of one of my friends in school. He built the huge (at least to me) rubber powered models which he covered with dope and tissue. He had one of the hand drills like you show in the previous post, and he had a hook on the end of it. He used the drill to turn his rubber bands. For some reason that stuck in my memory and when I saw your picture I remember thinking how cool that was. My friend and I would carry his large models to the top of the fire tower in our county and turn them loose to watch them circle around in the field, sometimes not to successfully. The dad and younger brother would stay on the ground and chase the big plane as it circled the field. Good times for sure. If I ever run up on Mr. McMurrin again, I will have to tell him what an impact he made in my life.
Tommy