These were available at Wal-Mart a few Christmas' ago, about 45 bucks if I remember correctly. I have an old toy that Mattel put out in the 70's that is a bi-plane and is called Barnstormers or something like that. It is actually 110VAC powered and a corded controller. I don't have room enough to try and fly it, but I understand that they did fly and is similar in performance to these but as Mike mentions, it is pretty flimsy and fragile to be light enough to fly at all. What I don't like about these is the dead flat wings, takes away from the appeal of the models to me. And notice the attitude of the fuselage in level flight, both a bit nose high. The models could be a lot more in trim. At the speed that they fly at, I would think anyone younger than 10 or 12 years old would have trouble keeping up with them and the first time out of the box would have the same results most people had with Cox RTF models, half a lap and crash!.
Type at you later,
Dan McEntee
Topic: Looks like it might be fun and a way to interest kids in control line (Read 2120 times)