Toys of the Seventies, Sleek Streak
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Balsa-wood, elastic band propelled airplane, with wheels for take off and landing. Also were the Star Flyer (top of the range) & Skeeter (Glider). Planes would fly for about 30 seconds given a hand launch.... usually into someone elses back garden!
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Back in the 70's, I bought many Sleek Streaks and Skeeters. They were cheap, easy to assemble, and flew well. The Skeeter was in fact a small rubber powered airplane, and not a glider.
The Skeeter was indeed a slightly smaller rubber-powered model. The glider was called the Stunt Flyer. Once I learned where to get good rubber and wind it properly, I had many 1-minute+ flights.
I couldn't tell you how many Sleek Streaks I flew. Off boards like carries and all. The ultimate flight was a take off with a 2 point landing with a coast out. ( of course all this happening within the confines of the street you were playing on.)
It is a sin that these toys are out of existence.
Way back when on Saturdays, maybe 40 years ago, my buddies and I would ride our bicycles to the IGA (a southern grocery store) and buy Sleek Streaks for $0.25 and spend the rest of the day flying them in a ball park near our neighborhood. I've bought a few rubber powered models recently, but none fly as well as the Sleek Streak.
we bought sleek streaks back in the 60s ,for such a simple design it was incredible,one flight went for over a quater of a mile.the secret was its extreme light weight. whoever designed it deserves a medal
I've just bought a balsa/rubber band airplane kit from a large supermarket called S_______ys, they had a novelty range on one of the aisles. I remember the Sleek Streaks well, spent all of my pocket money on them and they rarely lasted the day without being lost or broken. What were those plastic gliders called that you launched with a thick hand-held rubber band, they hurt if you got one in the earhole.
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