Super Chicken
Look closely, and you may be able to detect the Balsa U.S.A. Taube beginnings that were transformed by the author into a unique flying "creature." I always knew I'd build an RC airplane. I've had a love affair with both model and full-size airplanes ever since I saw my very first plane fly overhead when I was about four years old. I thought it was attached to a long wire, just as I thought there were little people in those glass tubes behind our big Philco superhetrodyne in the living room. Back to airplanes. My very first plane was a Ryan ST solid model. I wonder how many readers remember buying a box containing a block of balsa wood, some sheets of (about) 1/8 balsa, and a sheet of printed paper with the patterns showing how to carve the pieces of balsa into an airplane. After the Ryan, I built many Megow and Comet rubber-powered, Japanese tissue-covered flying models. I had to cut each wing rib out of a printed sheet of balsa with a double-edged Gillette safety razor blade.
