Airfix Super Flight Deck
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Airfix Super Flight Deck Game From the 1970`s / 1980`s.
Yes, that really was all it did, though it seemed good at the time !
I`m afraid the elastic band to use the launcher is no longer up to the job at all !
I had this for Christmas in the late 70's. I can remember that once it was set up the rest of my family had to stay in the far side of the living room due to the plane flying across the room. Happy memories.
The jet looks very realistic cool toy
Got this for xmas because the tv commercial looked cool. Used it for 5 minutes and never touched it again. They really knew how to make commercials to sell crap.
Got this iabout 77... my Dad was an airframe fitter at Hawker Siddeley in 1960s and then in Germany and Holland in 70s. So this was just the best. Mine always worked fine. Had the fishing line on the curtain rail and the flight deck on the dining table. Loved the way it got to the end of the wire and then turned. I used to then place my toy soldiers on the flight deck and play kamikaze strafing :)
I am 51 ,and still saving my pocket money for one...
Did you ever get it?
Boxing day 197 something, my grandmother walked into the line just as I launched the plane and she got the yellow F4 straight in the face.
Wow! Had one of these... Hours(?) of fun!!
Thanks for posting a memory for me!
Jamie Clark I really wanted one. Looks like I missed out on... hours(s) of fun!
I had a U-Fly-It that had a "catapult" built into the runway... you would launch it up the string, the plane would swivel around at the top and glide back down the string to the runway. The plane was a single engine Cherokee Archer or other similar airframe. This version also just used a stick, rather than a yolk for control. The U-Fly-It and the Vertibird were my ALL TIME favorite toys from my childhood!
I had one.....never worked properly but still great fun!
I was desperate for one of these as a kid!!
Airfix are bringing this back!! Can you believe it 😆
Really ? Surely not ?!! If you have a link please post it !
i had this was nothing like the advert on tv was proper kak was the first time i learned what scammed was )))
got this for Christmas years ago. Worst thing i did was put a plank of wood between the main deck and the end of the wire. Tried landing my jet on the plank and totally nailed ripping of all the under carriage, my dad solved the damage with super glue
The American version is made by Schaper. It comes in a variety of sets from the basic with a simple catapult and a Piper Cherokee, to the Barnstorming Set (I have a rebuilt version of this) with a sort of "game" where you try to pick up a mailbag on a sort of goalpost. The Barnstorming set has a little British Sopwith Camel. To an Instructor pilot set with yoke controls instead of a stick and a twin engine plane, to the one everyone wanted, the Carrier Set with F-4 Phantom airplane.
I know a lot of people were disappointed in its very simplistic play (launch plane with rubber band catapult, plane spins around on fishing line and you sort of "control" it with either a stick or yoke) and while it was a success initially, the wow factor ended and it became a dust collector. Rebuilt sets though, command a good price as this toy is hard to find complete. The Mattel Vertibird was the hot toy all the boys wanted for Christmas and birthdays, and was more successful.
О...о..поклоник ,айрфикс ...но такое первый раз вижу...Лайк!😊
In about 1974 I wanted one of these for Christmas. Luckily for me, a boy brought his into school a couple of weeks before end of term. I watched him set it up, it looked exciting! Then he started to operate it.....and what a load of shit it was! Absolutely pathetic. Then I thought, 'I bloody hope mum hasn't got mine yet?' She hadn't, PHEW!
Hahaha, dodged a bullet there!😅
Looks like you are missing your arrestor wire........
These old toys were only made to look good on TV but were boring to play with.
U fly it toys also had this in 60's. They had barn stormers and barns and airstrips as well.
The Saturday afternoons must have flown by....
I got one of these one Christmas. My Granddad helped me set it up but we got bored of it after half an hour. Waste of money.
mum, dad, you got ripped, sorry!
I had this... i used about twenty metres of dads fishing line and got a real run up from a tree,
Matel can't make stuff like that anymore too labor intensive! it has to be black boxed and consumer hack proof!
I remember seeing the adverts for that, I was never bought one as a present so later I joined the RN (Fleet Air Arm) and did it for real, I had two drafts … about 6.5 years on the flight deck of Ark Royal R09, it was way more thrilling than a plastic toy :)
Wow I bet! What determination you must have had. Isnt it only the best of the best pilots can land an A/C on a shifting flight deck.
@@alyciamarrison2916 Oh I wasn't aircrew ... I was flight deck party (Naval Airman ... Aircraft handler) but I still fulfilled my dream ;)
@@theoccupier1652 That's unlike a WAFU not boasting he's a pilot? :-)
@@flym0 My uncle Dave Vickers served on Ark Royal around the time they made the Sailing doc in mid 70s. We watched it every week and never spotted him. lol
@@tigershuffle1 Perhaps he was too busy flying all of the time ... 😜.
The front rubber wheels broke off the one i had,it was great until then.
yah, I remember this, great fun at the time!
James May showed his on one of his shows.
So, how long is the nylon thread on a *real* aircraft carrier?
had this growing up in the 1979s the wire snaped never did get it going gutted
If you added some weight to front of plane it worked much better....extra length line and a drop from an upstairs window also increased speed! No doubt most got busted this way...
I had one. It broke after about an hour. :(
Yep. Mine too. The catapult lasted about a week. I never could land it Pretty much impossible and there wasn't enough weight to the jet to pull the wire hard enough for that barrier thing to go up.
Can you imagine how totally Pissed off your Mum and Dad were
On Christmas Morning that they had worked overtime and time and a half to pay for this ....
I never had one , Got a TCR racing set instead ,
Cheers for posting
200 Kid.
Ohanto F14 awesome
Save your money & get a Whirlybird...100 x more enjoyable for a 6 year old in the 70s.
OMG i had one of these! Now I am 44 :(
Has anyone ever got the Phantom to take off? If I remember correctly, my one might just about have got to the end of the flight deck but it never got airborne.
Yes, it used to take off no problem back in the day ! The rubber band now though is a crumbly mess !!
@@gregvideo07 Well that's good to know; we must have been doing something wrong - unfortunately, it went into the bin long ago so we can't try again. ☹️
Most disappointing Christmas present I ever received; and it had looked so good in the Littlewoods catalogue and in those TV adverts (those TV adverts maybe wouldn't be legal today). Second most disappointing Christmas present ever was also by Airfix Combat Pack which was *barely* OK until both of the disc firing pillboxes broke after about a day and a half of reasonable use. I was annoyed with Airfix for releasing such rubbish toys as I had been making their kits for years; they were trading on their good name to shift shoite. Shame on you Airfix.
always wanted one as a kid, never got one - what a load of crap it looks now lol!
I did get one. I also got Flight Deck. You didn't miss much. It was impossible to land the jet so that it caught the wire and mine broke in about a week. Not one of Airfix's finest products.
You had to control its landing not just leave it !!!!
the original u fly it was better looking and worked every time
Just like UFly It!
The most disappointing toy ever.
I got this... i wanted TCR....
I totally agree. I got this for Chrismas and it was pure disappointment all the way.
@@rich999uk I had SFD and my mate next door had 'Total Control Racing'
Neither were much cop.
Got this Christmas 1977 I think , big thick elastic band for the launcher snapped after about 5 maybe 6 launches ...mum never got me a replacement 😣
Yep, I got one too. It was more entertaining setting it up, than firing it. How long was it on sale for? Surely just one Christmas?
This is as crap as I remembered, I never had it but my mate did. It's a bit of a 1 trick pony, it got lashed in a corner very quickly and we play rock em sock em boxing instead.
1970s not 79
Get it working & show correct take off & landing...
Looks crap otherwise
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Well; that was.................dreadful.
I had this and it was utter rubbish.
The most disappointing toy I ever asked or when I was a kid.
Probably if we're honest,one of the lamest toys ever released, great box art ,awful toy.