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Reephdweller
10-06-2003, 04:57 PM
When I was little I used go to the store and get these cheap balsa wood gliders. I'd break the pieces off and assemble the plane and then toss it around my yard. Yesterday someone gave me one that they got at a fair and I opened it with the same joy I had when I was kid. I threw it in the living room and it flew great. I still love these things.

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I saw this thing some time ago about a company that makes a glider very similar to this but it's BIG and when you throw it, it goes hundreds of feet. If you know of where I can find out more about it please let me know.

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Mike Teacher
10-06-2003, 05:03 PM
Those are simply the coolest toy ever. And not a toy toy, a toy where you actually have to do something. I built those, then plastic model airplanes [mostly WW2 + Jets; the Model Heads will know the names of the F-4U, the F-14, and the F-104, for example]; then I started building and flying those Estes Model Rockets of which about two dozen fill my basement as I type this. Looks like WMDs!

I also built the balsa airplane models where you build up templates in balsa and then you put 'stringers' 1/16 x 1/16 balsa along the fuselage and wings and stab and tail. You were supposed to then cover the balsa skeleton with tissue or silk or Monokote, but I never got that far, I just liked building that stuff, the best therapy around. brain food.

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Death Metal Moe
10-06-2003, 05:10 PM
The days of the ol' 5 and dime are long gone. I'd have no idea where to even start looking for one of those, other than a local hobby store.

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Reephdweller
10-06-2003, 05:31 PM
The days of the ol' 5 and dime are long gone. I'd have no idea where to even start looking for one of those, other than a local hobby store.


I think I've seen them in places like Eckerd and Walgreens.

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Death Metal Moe
10-06-2003, 05:34 PM
If you know of where I can find out more about it please let me know.




I think I've seen them in places like Eckerd and Walgreens.


Well, which is it?

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sr71blackbird
10-06-2003, 05:35 PM
I found some here (http://www.funforalltoys.com/products/just_for_fun_3/flying_machine/flying_machine.html).

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Reephdweller
10-06-2003, 05:38 PM
Well, which is it?



I was talking about the big gliders, I don't know where to get those. I've seen the little ones those kinds of stores.

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JustJon
10-06-2003, 05:43 PM
I've seen mall kiosks for the big ones. You'd see the guy making them circle in the air as you walk by.

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sr71blackbird
10-06-2003, 05:46 PM
Interesting facts about balsa wood! (http://www.rcmodelers.com/INTRODUCT/introbalsa/introbalsa.html)

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Mike Teacher
10-06-2003, 06:22 PM
http://members.aol.com/miketeachr/glider
Death Metal Moe
10-06-2003, 06:28 PM
Interesting facts about balsa wood!


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mdr55
10-06-2003, 07:44 PM
They sell styrofoam ones at the local gasoline store. I know it's not balsa wood but I usually buy a couple of these styrofoam planes because they're patterned after WWII flying planes. (comes with a plastic propeller). All this for like 99 cents. Plus it teaches the principals of aerodynamics (thrust, drift, and drag) and they're cololrful too.

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monsterone
10-06-2003, 08:23 PM
http://www.astronomers.net/web/images/u0000-rockets.jpg

one of the last few dangerous toys children can still play with. electronics + gun pwder = fun, fun, fun

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TooCute
10-06-2003, 09:27 PM
I used to have fun throwing the balsa wood planes off the top of my 21 story buliding. I also had a bunch of kits where you cut out paper and then glued it together to make really nifty planes... like you might glue a few sheets together to make a thinck wing with a nice aerodynamic profile etc. I never saw the big balsa wood gliders but I did have the really big styrofoam ones.

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shamus mcfitzy
10-06-2003, 10:03 PM
For a few years of my youth, I was a big paper airplane buff. I never really got into the wood gliders, but i had a book that taught you how to make like 10 different paper airplanes. That was kickass.
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10-07-2003, 12:31 AM
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reeshy
10-07-2003, 12:41 AM
When I was a kid, I was addicted to these things. As I got older, I started building the ones that took a week or two to build, with the silk covering(mostly WWI planes). I'd put a .049 engine on them and take them down to Pelham Bay Park and let them go...what a rush!!!!

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Reephdweller
10-07-2003, 02:31 AM
I also always wanted to get one of those radio controlled airplanes like the one Max Fischer had in Rushmore....

http://www.filmjunkies.net/topten/toptenscofavs/rushmore-s.jpg

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Spoil-Sport
10-07-2003, 06:39 AM
Some of them haf propellers. Wind 'em up, twist the rubber band and let it go.

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Duke
10-07-2003, 05:29 PM
i had one once

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high fly
10-20-2003, 04:58 PM
Yeah, those were lots of fun.
We were poor, so I (sniff) never got the ones with the rubber bands and propeller, so I used to steal them from other kids.
We'd wind them up till the rubber band got "double knots".

(edit) And you could adjust the way the plane flew by moving the wings up or back on the fuselage, as well as cocking them one way or another so that the tip of one wing was more toward the front than the other.
There were also some that came along later that could be launched with a rubber band.

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bitemyass
10-22-2003, 03:39 PM
Balsa trees grow naturally in the humid rain forests of Central and South America.

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sr71blackbird
10-22-2003, 04:00 PM
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