When I was REALLY young a mate had a Frog 'plane, all shiny, real aluminium, could it have been a Mustang (P-51) ???...help?
Could this have been the ready to fly rubber powered thing called IIRC "The Mark V fighter" or somesuch. It had a geared prop and one wound it up in its box with a crank I think.
Again - far too expensive for a prole like me to aspire to.
Try Beags.