What the heck is an Air Hog?  Well it doesn’t have anything to do with “the day that pigs fly”.  Unless your dad ever told you that you could have a remote control helicopter the day that pigs fly (not that mine ever did).

Air Hogs are the kind of remote control helicopters and planes I might have had a chance to get for Christmas as a kid.  They don’t require any assembly and no one will be angry if you crash the neighbor’s flyer into your dad’s jeep (not that I ever did).

The company has been around for 10 years and they have several different models that vary in size and price.  The cheapest I’ve seen so far is about sixteen bucks (on Amazon) for a plane and twenty-five (again on Amazon) for a helicopter.

What seals the deal for me–aside from the low expense–is the fact that they run on batteries instead of EXPLOSIVE PETROLIUM PRODUCT!

One of the big standards this year is the Air Hogs Havoc Stinger, the $25 model that you can fly in your house!  There are a few different versions of the Havoc Heli, in different designs and different colors.

Then threre’s the Zero Gravity Wall Crawler which will go UP your wall, or anywhere else you point the hand-held light beam guidance system.

Air Hogs are designed to be put to good use by anyone aged 8 or older (although a few of the models say 10).  Really it’s in everybody’s best interest to get your kids a remote control toy that doesn’t rely on gasoline.  These things are so light that a battery works just fine.

These suckers are the perfect gift that we never got to have (well, most of us).  And if you ever crashed the neighbor’s remote-control into your dad’s Jeep (not that I did), you probably never got to have one of these as a kid.

Air Hogs are so cheap that now you can buy them for yourself as well as your own kids, and not feel guilty about it.  Heck, you can buy’em for the neighbor’s kids or your daughter’s boyfriend you hope she marries someday because he’s a big math geek and he’s gonna be a rich programmer instead of some jackmonkey rock’n'roll singer with tattoos of bleeding martyrs.  That’s what Air Hogs are all about!