Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Flight School ix 1 7 Basic Straw Rocket 9 Cruise Missile 15 Bottle Rocket 21 Soda Pop Rocket 27 Blow Darts 30 Whisper Rocket 33 2 Rockets 3 Hand-Powered Gliders Flying Flounder 39 Plastic Zipper 41 Paper Plate Flyer 45 Red Baron 49 37 Round Square Flyer 51 Three-Penny Flyer 54 Phonebook Flipper 60 4 Rubber Band Powered Gliders 65 Classic Dart 67 Flat Flyer 72 Mini-Delta Flyer 79 F-16 87 Falcon Frenzy 94 Streak 100 Foam Plate Shuttle 104 Bat-Wing Flyer 109 5 Helicopters 117 Apache 119 Straw Copter 123 Super Spinner 127 Maple Key Helicopter 134 Fantastic Four-Blade 143 6 Launchers 147 X-Wing Flyer and Launcher 149 Grape Bazooka 157 Straight-as-an-Arrow Launcher 164 Pistol Grip Launcher 166 Pringles Launcher 173 7 Boomerangs 177 Basic Fingerrang 179 Triple Threat 182 Criss-Cross Flyer 185 Ninja Star 189 Aussie 192 
