A finger toy, which may be integrally formed and molded of plastic material, for mounting on a single digit and comprising a body portion having a front nose end with an attached pinwheel or propeller, and a rear end opening which provides access to an interior body cavity, sized for receiving a digit. The shape of the interior body cavity is designed so that it will be finger-gripping for secure but releaseable attachment of the toy to a user's finger.

To control a model aircraft or spacecraft with a control stick, the first and second sides of a parallelogram linkage within the console housing are attached to and form universal joints for the bottoms of a control column and control stick respectively, both of which extend out of the console housing, with the craft being mounted to the control column. Both the control stick and the control column are mounted by universal joints to the console so that movement of the control stick causes swiveling and tilting motion of the craft in both forward and side to side directions and any position in between about the universal joint under the control of the parallelogram linkage which connects the bottom ends of the control stick and control column.

A control stick simulator for use in a part task trainer for pilots utili a bending beam in cooperation with deflection sensing transducers to output pitch and roll commands. The control stick is a cantilevered metallic beam, arrested by stops in a mounting flange near a handgrip at its upper end, thereby presenting an isometric feel to the pilot.

A simulated aircraft piloting device for use as a desk top pen holder or amusement device has a simulated aircraft mounted on a base for movement about simulated pitch, roll, and yaw axes relative to the base, and a simulated aircraft control stick on the base connected to the aircraft for moving the aircraft about its simulated pitch, roll, and yaw axes.

An aircraft landing game apparatus (10) comprising a housing unit (11) having a first motorized unit (12) including a closed loop track member (24) operatively connected to a miniature airplane (13) which makes a circuit around a horizontally disposed elevated platform member (18); and a second motorized unit (14) including a moving surface unit (15) including a flexible belt member (31) which rotates about a horizontally disposed axis; wherein, the flexible belt member (31) is provided with a normally open circuit means (40) including an illumination element (41); whereby the miniature airplane (13) is adapted to engage a contact plate (45) on the circuit means (40) to activate the illumination means (41) representative of a proper simulated landing of the miniature airplane (13).