"but did they ever have their fingers chopped up starting a DC Sabre on a cold and wet field only to watch the control line aeroplane perform a beautiful arc into the ground before smashing to pieces on it's first flight - Eh ? "
Yep, Cox .049, C/L Cosmic Wind, fingers chopped whilst running engine in, 1 flight of half a circle, up, stall, vertically down....
go forward over 25 years....setting up new RC heli, holding it by the tail, Gyro twitches and tailrotor takes 3 gouges out of knuckles..
