Volga, you're about as warped as me! I made a Hindenburg piñata for my birthday party when I was ten. But instead of hitting it with a bat, we doused it with lighter fluid and set it ablaze. I made it out of chicken wire, so when it burned up it kind of looked like the burned out girders lying on the ground at Lakehurst.
Volga and Ulithi, you are both a bit loose. Although I recall spending a whole afternoon building a model jet (it was in the 50s, so I forget which), only to put a firecracker in its tail and toss it out a second floor window. It was just a pile of molten plastic when we were done.
Back in the mid-fifties my Dad bought me my first engine powered flying model, a COX replica of the little Piper Cub. He bought it in the same color as his real one, yellow and blue. After flying it on the string tether for a couple of years, I bought myself an R/C model plane called "The Bat", it was really just a giant wing with a stub fuselage for mounting the engine in front and the vertical tail in the rear. This plane was very acrobatic, and far out performed the old "Cub". So, I clipped off the Cub's strings, filled it full of fuel, taped the aerilons in flight position, fired it up and pointed it south. It was last seen heading toward Tiber Lake on the Maris River.
That funny and kinda sad at the same time...Bet its still around somewhere...in someones attic or garage...
