RE: I remember when......
Ahh the Veco Cheif. I had one that my parents bought for me as a gift in the mid 70's. Best CL model I ever owned. It was so nice to have a plane with a built up fuselage instead of a profile.
Another that I have not seen since about the same time was a flying wing for a .35 ~ .45 called the Fastback II. Anyone recall it? We had one given to us by an old guy. It flew so nice we took it apart after a crash and made blueprints of all the parts and built about three more of them over the next few years.