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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Bobcat81 on August 15, 2013, 05:26:26 PM
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They were the bees knees.
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i still see them in the mom n pops.
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I used to buy them for my kids all the time.. I swear, I only bought them for the kids. :D
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Tried to use my model car glue once... It melted :neener:
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I flew the ones with the props powered by rubber bands. I'd have fun with those things until the rubber band or plane broke. I'd usually get them at A Cracker Barrel store.
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Yep I bought a lot of those always ended up stuck in a pine tree or with a blackcat strapped to it at some point.
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I buy em for my kids all the time, a cheap treat for ALL the family...
C`mon here son I`ll show how to fly it!!
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I bought a bunch of them for my 40th birthday party in order to give them to those fellow AH'ers who'd come to see me. Still got a couple unwrapped, a Hellcat and a Zeke. Another Zero and a P51 are hanging above my desk in an eternal dogfight... Seems I never throw anything away...
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I go back further...
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When I was a kid the ones with the rubberband powered prop and landing gear were my favorites.
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I remember when the five and dime stuff cost that much. :old:
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I used to fly em until they were worn almost to the point of not flying anymore. Then, they would get "shot down". I would pour a little lighter fluid on the wings, light it, and chunk in off the roof. There were several black spots in the backyard that my parents for some reason didnt really appreciate.
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When I was a kid the ones with the rubberband powered prop and landing gear were my favorites.
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They never really flew correctly, but these were fun.
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I won those all the time at the arcades
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They never really flew correctly, but these were fun.
If you bought a good one you could get it to take off and land like it was supposed to. Hand launching them usually worked even with the bad ones, although I remember adjusting some for hours and never being able to make it do anything other than auger at the 10 foot mark.
Fooling with those planes made me realize pretty quick that I wasn't going to be an aeronautical engineer. :lol
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Tried to use my model car glue once... It melted :neener:
Mine too... Oh the wonderful world of chemistry! I liked the wind up rubber band ones, those were the rich mans plane! :x
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I go back further...
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Mine spontaneously combusted... :noid
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They never really flew correctly, but these were fun.
Yeah I think that was part of the fun. :lol
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I go back further...
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We used to strap bottle rockets to those. :O
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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.
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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.
:O man I remember those too! These gliders did crazy @#$! With bottle rockets under each wing. Man those were the days........
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:O man I remember those too! These gliders did crazy @#$! 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..
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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.
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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. :bhead. Those corsairs met their demise at the jaws of the neighbors dog too. :salute
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We used to strap bottle rockets to those. :O
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. :aok
Coogan
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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. :bhead. Those corsairs met their demise at the jaws of the neighbors dog too. :salute
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?
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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. :old: :old: :old:
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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. :old: :old: :old:
:lol :aok
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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
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I go back further...
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Yep those are the ones I remember playing with as a kid.
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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
:O wow, I had forgot about those too! Thanks for dragging that memory out of moth balls :aok