Scientific Explorer's My First Airplane Science Kit

Reader Reviews
My 6 year old son got this airplane kit as a birthday gift. He has been asking daily for me to put some time aside to help him build the 6 enclosed airplanes. The outside shows an artistic picture of 3 different airplanes. A propeller plane, a glider with wheels and another glider. The inside is a silver puch envelope that contains the planes. Likes: - The instruction manual is well written and serves as a mini science project on flight. - The enclosed postcards of planes got my son really excited (Wright brothers, Air Force One, SR71, etc) about building the planes. - The foam airplane with rubber band launcher is like a slingshot that sends the plane soaring. This is the best plane in the kit. - The idea of painting your own planes with the included yellow, red and blue paint pens and the stickers is a nice touch. Dislikes: - 4 of the 6 airplanes are paper cut outs on 2 sheets of paper. They aren't even stand alone paper airplanes, they are mod kits for the balsa wood airplane. - They only give you ONE balsa wood plane and my son broke the tail fin on trying to assemble it. You should have seen the heart ache... It basically meant that he couldn't build 5 of the 6 planes in the kit! I'm really sad that Scientific Explorer (owned by Elemer's Glue) released such a promising kit with such a lame set of planes. They should have included at least 2 balsa wood planes, and one of them should have had the landing gear and rubber band powered propeller blade. It felt like false advertising to see those planes on the box art and not inside the box. I hope they re-release this product with an extra buck or so in the cost of parts to make this the kit we hoped for. Until then I'll be wary of buying a scientific explorer product.