And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Hours but never days. When the wings start breaking trim equally with scissors, preferably into a swept configuration. Cut a notch behind the weight for rubber-band catapult launch when lift becomes an issue.
Our company is an agent for Guillow here in Australia and we still sell thousands of their balsa gliders every month. Companies buy them as giveaways. We recently sold them to one of the major airports in Australia and last year the Australian Air Force bought them to give away at their career days. People still love them!
Just bought 1/2 dozen of those & the ones with the rubber band from Tractor Supply. Going to the park with the kids & see how fast they can destroy them.
The local municipal airport here (Albert Whitted in downtown Saint Pete, for those keeping score at home) has a restaurant overlooking the runway. The kids’ menu is printed on balsa wood gliders like the one above. Great marketing, if you can manage to get them home in one piece.
In the sixties, the gliders were a nickel, and the propellor ones with the wheels were a dime. My two brothers and I would walk three blocks to the five-and-dime to buy them. None of us were more than six years old at the time.
I was entertained by them in the Fifties and Sixties. Shift the wings and they would do something other than straight flight.
ReplyDeleteHours but never days. When the wings start breaking trim equally with scissors, preferably into a swept configuration. Cut a notch behind the weight for rubber-band catapult launch when lift becomes an issue.
ReplyDeleteI went through many of those. I put one of those Jet-x 50 solid rocket motors on one. It didn't turn out well.
ReplyDeleteGreat fun along with the wind up rubber band propeller variety…
ReplyDeleteSleek Streak
DeleteThese were 30 cents and came with wheels. They worked best off the peak of our split-foyer
DeleteStill do.
ReplyDelete50's and 60's also !!!
ReplyDeleteHad many
ReplyDeleteOur company is an agent for Guillow here in Australia and we still sell thousands of their balsa gliders every month. Companies buy them as giveaways. We recently sold them to one of the major airports in Australia and last year the Australian Air Force bought them to give away at their career days. People still love them!
ReplyDeleteJust bought 1/2 dozen of those & the ones with the rubber band from Tractor Supply. Going to the park with the kids & see how fast they can destroy them.
ReplyDeleteThe local municipal airport here (Albert Whitted in downtown Saint Pete, for those keeping score at home) has a restaurant overlooking the runway. The kids’ menu is printed on balsa wood gliders like the one above. Great marketing, if you can manage to get them home in one piece.
ReplyDeleteIn the sixties, the gliders were a nickel, and the propellor ones with the wheels were a dime. My two brothers and I would walk three blocks to the five-and-dime to buy them. None of us were more than six years old at the time.
ReplyDeleteDare anyone to build one of their stick models.
ReplyDeleteDid a lot of Scotch tape repairs!
ReplyDeleteThose are available from the same manufacturer on Amazon. 6 for 20 bucks.
ReplyDeleteThe rubber band powered units were great fun to see if you could take off from the sidewalk and do a three point landing on the raised porch.
ReplyDelete