Stunt Fliers

Simple instructions for creating paper models of colorful space-age vehicles that can do loops, spirals, spin and perform other flight maneuvers.

Sixteen easy-to-assemble spaceships capable of performing loops, rolls, turns and other high-flying exploits. Diagrams, simple instructions help construct brightly colored Star Trainer, Star Searcher, Space Scout, and 13 other gravity-defying vehicles.

Take to the skies! Stunt pilots amaze people with their ability to do spectacular flying feats. They perform corkscrews, loop-the-loops, and other breathtaking tricks high in the sky or close to the ground.

Annotation Shows how the fascination of the German people with flight combined idealized notions of vitality and modernity with symbols of conquest over the natural and political worlds. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Describes the sport of stunt flying, including its history, the most popular stunt planes, basic stunts, and stunt flying contests. Also includes information on the U.S. Navy's Blue Angels.

“Starring human flies, daredevil aviators, bridge jumpers, and lion tamers, The Thrill Makers is a great read, as evocative as it is theoretically savvy, and convincingly argued. Culling telling details from a host of long-overlooked sources, Jacob Smith’s account of sensational, high-risk public performance from the Victorian age to the 1930s unearths and illuminates the interwoven histories of public spectacle, masculinity, the motion picture industry, new forms of celebrity, and the expanding American metropolis.”—Greg Waller, Department of Communication and Culture, Indiana University. “The Thrill Makers is an historical tour-de-force that illuminates the origins of risk-taking performance in American entertainment, and shows how its practitioners were gradually marginalized as invisible stunt doubles during the rise of the motion picture industry. Smith’s analysis of the lion tamer, the human fly, and the airplane wing-walker—as well as the many others who thrilled audiences before and during the advent of cinema—inspires us to reconsider the nature of media spectacle, masculinity, performance, celebrity, and labor at the turn of the last century. Impeccably researched, this book is a captivating read that re-frames the emergence of cinema in the context of its relationship to other forms of modern entertainment.”—Barbara Klinger, author of Beyond the Multiplex: Cinema, New Technologies, and the Home.

Sixteen easy-to-assemble spaceships capable of performing loops, rolls, turns and other high-flying exploits when launched by paper-plane enthusiasts. Diagrams, simple instructions help construct brightly colored Star Trainer, Star Searcher, Space Scout and 13 other gravity-defying vehicles.