6615 - Eagle Stunt Flyer

Rating:
Pros: Quite a few unique parts; great model!
Cons: If you don't have aerial acrobats, this stunter is going to be very lonely. You'd better buy two sets.
Contents: 71 pieces including 1 mini-fig
Price: $7.99 - Discontinued
Reviewed: 5-Aug-1996
Reviewed by: Joseph Gonzalez

Picture yourself in the pilot's seat. Swooping low over corn fields, looping the loop (better put breakfast on hold), and overall barnstorming to beat the band! It's not just a job, it's a .... hey, they shouldn't even call it work. The sky's the limit behind the controls of the Eagle Stunt Flyer!

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Here's one of those unnecessary reviews. If you are a plane fanatic, you've already picked the set up, and if you really don't care one way or the other, then it will never enter your collection.
I haven't collected town regularly for quite a while but I did pick up the 6345-Aerial Acrobats a couple of years ago for the very reason of having the stunt planes (one mono and one biplane). As soon as I saw this biplane in red (6345's biplane is white), I knew I had to pick it up as a complement to the other set.
This is a great set! It isn't too expensive but you get some good plane parts, and pictures on the box show some decent alternate sets you can make (though I haven't tried them yet).
The kit is basically a biplane and fig set but unique parts include two chrome exhaust pipes, propeller unit (including a red 4x4 round casing piece), red 8-stud-length rear-wing plate and a tail fin (this came with diving eagle decals but I put mine on the propeller casing instead), four red 9-length wing plates, interesting 4x4 "H" brick (two 1x4 horizontally tapering sides of a 2x2 center piece) for the body, and two red 2x3x2 elevator/strut pieces. I also like the way they use sets of four grey 1x1 flat rounds on each wheel unit to look like springs/shocks.
This is a swoosher set all the way. Again, if you were ever going to get this, you already have it. But even if you aren't a plane lover, I seriously suggest taking a close look at the set, it isn't going to break your piggy bank and it might just turn you into a flight fanatic!