Aviation Ping!.....................
My father got me one for Xmas, a P-51.
We set it up outside.
I told my father the instructions said to set min throttle till one got used to it.
He ignored me. Plane took off, went vertical and looped noesdown into the ground.
While in high school, I passed by the school yard and saw a friend flying a control-line model plane with a .049cc engine. I went over to watch him perform loops and saw that he was pretty capable at handling the plane. He said it was easy and told me to give it a try with one of his two planes that he had with him. After he re-fueled the one he had been flying, he handed me the control lines and started up the engine. Two seconds into flight, it went up and then down into the ground. While I was apologetic and embarrassed, he seemed to not mind at all and insisted that I give it another try with the other plane he had with him. I was reluctant, but two seconds into that flight, another nose-dive and crash. I think he was a bit upset after that, but I don’t recall him trying to strangle me with the limp control line...
What BS, I had one, played with it a lot. A few finger ouchies but great fun back then.