What are your Choices in Budget Flying Toy Airplane Models?
There are a few people, many people actually, who grow up knowing how they simply love anything to do with flight. They know that it can be a while before they’re placed in control of an airplane for real (if it will ever happen). And so, what they do is to involve themselves in pottering with all kinds of flying toy airplane concept they may discover – RC planes and helicopters, backyard rockets and anything else that just shoots up into the sky. Say, 30 years ago, any kid who desired to play around in radio controlled airplanes and the like had to be really serious enough about it that he would wish to learn about things like radio frequencies, servos, air currents and the like. For approximately 10 years now though, things have changed. You don’t really have to be that deeply committed to flying and the science behind it to pick up a flying toy airplane. In point of fact, the market today is pretty much flooded in all varieties of indoor and outdoor toy aircraft for the casual child interested in flight. A few of them can really fly well (the toy, and not the child); others need so much prepping and coaching that they really aren’t worth any kid’s time. Let’s check a few out.
The market is replete with flying machines under $50 that look like they could do what a regular helicopter does. However, they don’t. In the least. Air Hogs makes a number of these – like the Vectron Wave, the Hawk Eye and the Sharp Shooter. There is the Geospace Unmanned Recon Air Vehicle by another company as well. These affordable little flying toy airplane devices are not very likely to satisfy anybody – much less inspired them to love flying. These are cheap, unstable, poorly-featured, non-fun devices. They have ineffective remote controls, they cannot so much fly as hover at one spot, and maneuverability is best forgotten about. For those who really want a flying experience with a toy that does everything an airplane or helicopter is supposed to, you need something better.
For those on a little budget, the Syma S107 is a fantastic helicopter with two rotors that actually does most stuff that you would wish for a flying toy airplane to do. It, in reality, looks like a helicopter, and it can hover, fly in most directions, maneuver itself any way you decide, and it’s pretty powerfully built. You can crash it into walls several times without doing any damage. It is not fast at all though; if you wanted to fly it all through your house, it would probably take you a full 5 minutes. For those on a budget, nothing else comes close.
