This item was a huge disappointment. First of all, it arrived in flimsy packaging which had been completely beat up and had holes in it when it arrived. We should have returned it immediately but our grandson was so anxious to get it and try it out that we went ahead and opened it, thinking that it would be salvageable. It wasn't. Where there was a hole in the package the airplane also had a gouge in it. The airplane itself is made out of very lightweight styrofoam, not the dense kind we were expecting. It was also cracked in another area due to the packaging getting so beat up on its way to our home. I would not recommend this product to anyone. It was a waste of money.