Where I started

Most everyone has a story about starting out with thier first cox ready to fly controline plane. Well when I was a kid there wasn't much  money and no amount of begging resulted in a cox plane on Christnas or birthdays. Finaly on one such occasion, (don't remember which ) I was the happy recipient of a Wen-Mac  v tail Beechcraft Bonanza!  Oh boy!  Out of countless Suday afternoons  of trying , I got it to fly a tank of gas ONCE!  It was totally out of control with a hand launch...we had no hard surface to ROG from and hand launched everything. Because of this I had removed the heavy tricycle landing gear. Now thinking about this I suspect that really screwed up the CG!  After ONE finally successfull flight I think I sold it to a neighbor kid for probably 5.00. Add in some lawn mowing money and I bought myself a new P-40 flying tiger....the tan one with the inverted engine. I never flew it because I didn't want to wreck it. I had that P-40 until I left it in an outbuilding with some other planes in the midst of a move in 1987. Hadn't flown since the 60's and was tired of moving a bunch of stuff I never used. Now I'm wishing I hadn't done such a stupid thing! Now 32 yrs. later I am back near the area where I left them. Old building where I left them in the attic is still standing...don't know who lives there now....not sure I want to be an idiot and stop in  and ask about looking for them ,or see if they are still there!
  Anyway...after my Wen-Mac debacle I got into building and flying combat wings. Lil Satans and Voodoos. Left my last new unflown Voodoo behind in that move also with a new .35 engine on it.
     There's a morale to this story...NEVER abandon or sell stuff you no longer use! You'll want it back when you get older!....And by the way...anyone ever seen a Wen-Mac v-tail Beech Bonanza? I never have. Mine was red and white. They must have been substantialy cheaper than the cox planes in the day,otherwise I may have never gotten into controline to start with!  Just some reminising from a now OLD phart!  Thanks for bearing with me and my story.......Steve