I remember one titled Fireball XL5, but I haven't Google'd anything on it... yet! The Thunderbirds were another, but that was on a channel our rabbit ear antenna could not pick up! We lived in the sticks, as it were.
True. I had to wait six weeks for exhaust stacks to be fabricated at my first annual. Set me back .65 AMU, plus labor to install!
Second annual was easy peasy. Third found all cylinders cracked!
True. The winds can be quite fickle around here.
I think @alfadog posted a yootoob video of touch-n-goes in a Luscombe in 20+knot gusting crosswinds. Good to know the plane can handle the demands. My max to date is a 10-knot direct crosswind.