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When I was a kid I had a Nerf airplane, a Styrofoam glider offering about as much fun as a paper airplane only more expensive. My older brother, on the other hand, had a gas-powered, scale-model fighter plane that was flow in circles, tethered by a pair of strings (the budget-version of sophisticated Radio Controlled units). Too complicated and perilous for me, apparently, and ultimately disappointing for my duly dizzy brother. Today (as of 1998, in fact), Spin Master Toys has melded that simple glider-of-fancy and propeller power pizzazz with Air Hogs. Omitting overt convolution and painful price tags, an Air Hog is Nerf-like airplane but with a patented, air-pressure powered propeller. With the unit's plastic fuselage acting as a reservoir, air pressure is built up with a simple hand-pump, much like a bicycle pump. Filled to capacity and detached from the pump, the propeller stays locked until flicked by a finger, setting it to exhilarating kinesis and definite flight-ready status. It's then launch by hand, gracefully and impressively into the sky for a flight of football field distance or in a willowy banking turn if one presets the tail fins just so. Recommend for ages 8 and up with adult supervision strongly suggested (air pressure is significant energy, after all).
Reviewed: Sep. 28, 2001
Type: KidTech
From: Spin Master Toys
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