I took a walk to the park to test out the Sparrow Catapult Glider (designed and built by Lloyd Shales).

These things are awesome! If you want one get in touch with me! The better flights are towards the end of the video.

I flew my old Squirrel too. This one is several years old as you can see by the numerous tissue repairs. 🙂

We also had the Chinese prefab catapult glider. We got it to fly by adding lots of reflex by bending the body quite a bit. Didn’t fly very well compared to the real genuine balsa flyer. I think a parachute would be simpler and work better.