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From: pgf@hou5f.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.rec.disc
Subject: Re: Skylo (TM of Wham-o)?
Message-ID: <329@hou5f.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 13-Jul-83 08:44:55 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 13 08:44:55 1983
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Organization: American Bell ED&D, Holmdel, NJ
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Are you perhaps referring to the Skyro, by Mattel (I think?)?  It does indeed
have amazing flight characteristics-- too amazing, it turns out.  It is a 
ring with a very slight airfoil shape to it's cross-section (i.e. almost flat),
and it goes forever.  Wtih a little practice you can throw a couple hundred
yards.  The trouble is, the direction of drift is not controlled by the initial
throw, as with a Frisbee, but by a slight distortion of this ring before ever
throwing it.  To make it go one way, you bend opposite edges up, to make it go
the other way, you bend them down.  There is really no way to know exactly
where it's going to go before you start, and since it flies so far, a small
eror is magnified greatly, to the point where very few long throws are caught,
merely chased.  I got mine at a Child World store in central Jersey.
					Paul Fox
					ABI, Holmdel, NJ
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