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Originally Posted by justplugit
the 10 cent balsa wood fighter planes with a piece of lead in the nose that we would have dog fights with for hours until the wing broke?
The wing always broke. 
Then there was the rich kids model, 50 cents,
that had a prpoeller and rubber bands you would turn so it would fly. 
Best was the piper cub balsa kits where you would strecth tissue paper over the frame and wings,
then apply yellow Testors dope to make the paper shrink.
Still remember that smell. |
I think Testors plan was to get us high of that dope, thnking this was going to be the best plane ever to fly the friendly skies. You'd get her all finished and ready to fly, hit that fresh air. The high went away and the wing broke. It was all over inside of fifteen minutes.
I loved those balsa wood planes. I got one for my grandson last summer and it just wasn't the same. Can't say exactly why, but it just wasn't the same. Probably made in China?