Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site hou5f.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!floyd!whuxlb!pyuxll!eisx!npoiv!npois!hogpc!houca!odin!orion!hou5f!pgf 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 Article-I.D.: hou5f.329 Posted: Wed Jul 13 08:44:55 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Jul-83 05:57:01 EDT References: <1688@rabbit.UUCP> Organization: American Bell ED&D, Holmdel, NJ Lines: 14 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 ihnp4!hou5f!pgf