It's a tradition I've continued with my children and always fun

However, once assembled, they do fly pretty nicely

They're perhaps not made quite as well as the ones that you may have had in your childhood (at least, if your childhood -- like mine -- was over a quarter of a century ago), and so it's good that there are a dozen of these here

No, these aren't expensive and aerodynamic replicas of the real thing

These are simple, cheap little toys that fly beautifully, with their plastic propellers whirling before them

It's just fun and cheap, but I can tell you that for some reason it's a memory of Christmas that will last a long time