In built two Midwest Hornets in the 1961-62 time frame. I won my first combat trophy with one, based on a better pit crew, not a good-flying plane.
I built the second Hornet on the theory that I must have screwed up on the first, but the results weren't much better. From then on it was Voodoos, Combat Cats, a Wasp, a Big Iron and Sneakers.