"It's nothing more than a big balsa wood airplane that ... in these oversized toys. Pietenpol was obviously ahead of his time. People are still building and flying in the contraptions he dreamed ...

SKYWARD. BEFORE THERE WERE SCREENS, THERE WERE SKIES. BEFORE TIKTOKS, THERE WERE TAILSPINS AND BEFORE BATTERIES. THERE WAS BALSA WOOD. IT’S BASICALLY GLUE. A LITTLE BIT OF SANDPAPER AND THAT ...

AS TOYS GO, THEY ARE unequivocally ... Soon after, Guillow designed a line of balsa flying model construction kits—scale models built from a wood frame, then covered with light tissue stiffened ...