You guys remember these?

[DubiousKB]

Tried to use my model car glue once... It melted 

Mine too... Oh the wonderful world of chemistry!  I liked the wind up rubber band ones, those were the rich mans plane! 

[Volron]

I go back further...

Mine spontaneously combusted...

[Shifty]

They never really flew correctly, but these were fun.

 Yeah I think that was part of the fun. 

[bacon8tr]

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We used to strap bottle rockets to those. 

[surfinn]

I used to get the bi-wing with the German cross on it. Almost set the house on fire strapping two bottle rockets to it.

[bacon8tr]

I used to get the bi-wing with the German cross on it. Almost set the house on fire strapping two bottle rockets to it.

  man I remember those too! These gliders did crazy @#$! With bottle rockets under each wing.  Man those were the days........

[Nathan60]

man I remember those too! These gliders did crazy @#$! With bottle rockets under each wing.  Man those were the days........

Lots of stuff do crazy @#$!  with moon travelers strapped top them, cats, dogs, field mice, little brothers, hobos..

[Plawranc]

I was born in the days of the PC. I was flying flight sims on a DOS machine at age 3.

Alas however I did have a book of gliders which I built from scratch. Nothing ever beats a decent bit of aviation. 

I also had a rubber band glider, it flew over the neighbors fence and got eaten by a Staffordshire Terrier named Oscar.

[bacon8tr]

As a kid( circa 1974) I also had a toy aircraft carrier, it had two foam corsairs with it. If memory serves me correctly, they were launched with a rubber band catapult.  Wish I could remember the name of it, or who manufactured it.  . Those corsairs met their demise at the jaws of the neighbors dog too.  

[100Coogn]

We used to strap bottle rockets to those. 

I just Googled 'bottle rocket airplane'.  Some really good ones on there and some, not so much.
Wish I had thought of doing that when I was young.   

Coogan

[Shifty]

As a kid( circa 1974) I also had a toy aircraft carrier, it had two foam corsairs with it. If memory serves me correctly, they were launched with a rubber band catapult.  Wish I could remember the name of it, or who manufactured it.  . Those corsairs met their demise at the jaws of the neighbors dog too.  

Here's one that will date you older guys. Any of you guys remember getting these rubberband powered USS Enterprise CV toys that came in Chex cereal?

[rpm]

I had an old toy that I've never seen anywhere. I was an F-4 Phantom game that was like a prehistoric video game. You had a joystick that moved a little plastic F4 model on a wire left and right across the screen. The behind the screen was a plastic continuous loop of a map turned by a small motor. If you pulled the trigger as you crossed the ground targets or a MiG, the screen would light up green. If you didn't it would light up red. It was small, simple and ridiculously easy. But for 1967 it was uber cool and I burned thru every C battery I could scrounge.

[Shifty]

I had an old toy that I've never seen anywhere. I was an F-4 Phantom game that was like a prehistoric video game. You had a joystick that moved a little plastic F4 model on a wire left and right across the screen. The behind the screen was a plastic continuous loop of a map turned by a small motor. If you pulled the trigger as you crossed the ground targets or a MiG, the screen would light up green. If you didn't it would light up red. It was small, simple and ridiculously easy. But for 1967 it was uber cool and I burned thru every C battery I could scrounge.

    

[Oldman731]

Here's one that will date you older guys. Any of you guys remember getting these rubberband powered USS Enterprise CV toys that came in Chex cereal?

Hey!  You could put somebody's eye out with that!

I remember the little gray submarines that you filled with baking soda so that they'd sink, then surface, then sink again.  Simple pleasures for simple minds.

- oldman

[R 105]

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Yep those are the ones I remember playing with as a kid.