The balsa on this plane is soft from all the oil/gas still soaked into it. I believe it will find a place on the wall now or maybe even the trash it's that bad. Now that I know I'm on the right path a Pitts Special is first on the wish list of store bought hollow logs.
If I showed a picture of my one man launch thingy I would probably be banned from the forum and given several lectures on safety, however, it was along the lines of the StevensAero - SpoolUP device.
As kids, we slapped these things together, daubed on some paint and it was off to the field. I still have a couple big planes, (Ringmaster Imperial, Jr. Satan) to electrify but these little ones should get a grand kid or two interested and with the way they fly on electric should keep them interested.