The Walk Along Glider
This Walkalong glider is controlled by the air your body moves, but at first it looks just like magic! It was invented by Tyler MacCready, who was 10 years old at the time.
Link [LiveLeak] – via Sanity Factory
This Walkalong glider is controlled by the air your body moves, but at first it looks just like magic! It was invented by Tyler MacCready, who was 10 years old at the time.
Link [LiveLeak] – via Sanity Factory
Patrick
Where do I get one???????????
Adam Fuhrer
Unlivable. Really!
Samantha
You know, I haven't seen him since his days on M.A.S.H., exciting to see he is still in good health.
Zicsoft
The commercial version is currently sold by a Hong Kong company:
VonSkippy
Wasn't that a clip from one of Alda's "Scientific American Frontiers" from the mid-90's?
Ali S.
It's slowly gliding away...after it!
Aar000n
I've seen this before, and it sounds like fun to do. But there's only one beginner design on the internet (that I can find at least), so you can only do so much...
Mlevad
I have 4 or 5 of these things. When I purchased them it was for a museum program I was doing. The company quit making them and I bought all they had left in stock. So if anyone would one of these I am selling. If there is interest I will post them on Craig's list. Tyler whom I have met is a super smart very nice guy.
Rohin
Is it AIR as they mention, or THERMALS? Sure you can divert air upwards with a flat hand as Alda starts out doing, but if you're standing under it and controlling it with a bald pate, surely it's the thermals coming off your dome. In which case, the less hair the better!
Also, shame that the end shot with the wistful music and soppy closing is a plane slowly crashing.
Angstrom
anytime I see Alda now I can't shake the weird version of him that recurs in the Peter Serafinowicz show
there's a bit of him in this clip I think:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1Pi1idnakw
xsurferdude
These are very light model gliders, lighter than standard paper airplanes (but there is a paper design called a tumblewing). The gliders can be flown indoors and need still air to work well.
amberae
that could get a lot of kids to go outside. i know my fat butt would be out there for hours of simple entertainment.
Larfin Jackarse
Thumbs up to amberae 12
That was the first thing I thought, I wanna buy 20 for all the nieces and nephews (and me 
, friends kids, etc.
What a grouse toy!
Where can I buy one in Melb, Oz, hmmmm.
Christophe
Go, go little wing!
Oops, I stepped into something...
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