Beer Can Bombers, Acrobat

Beer Can Bombers are instruction kits for building flyable model beer can planes. The kit has instructions and patterns for making a specific type of airplane model that you can fly like a paper airplane, but is much more durable and allows for more flexible designs. The instructions walk you through building your beer or soda can model plane.

The instructions include a pattern to cut out your plane shape.

My grandfather, Roland Mayer, created the original beer can bombers, also known as soda can flyers. I found some of the kits dating back decades in the basement. It would be fun to share the kits with the world. My grandfather loved all things aviation and started selling model plane patterns from ads in the back of magazines as a hobby. When we visited as a kid, he had many different models strung up and hanging from the ceiling around his house.