If you were a kid in the mid-1970s (I realize this doesn't include ANY of you little weasels, but pay attention anyway because this is cool! - Ed.), you either had one of these, or a kid on your block did: Peter Hirschberg has written an excellent simulator of the venerable Mattel VertiBird. What's a VertiBird? Only the very cool and now very rare helicopter toy that actually flew using true rotary-wing flight dynamics. Heck, it was the VertiBird that got our Managing Editor geeked on those ugly things in the first place. And Pete nailed it with this simulator: right down to the cheesy styrofoam Coast Guard "ship" and all the nifty things you could pick up with the hook. And best of all, since it's virtual you won't try to land it on your cousin's hair, entangling him severely in the rotor drive mechanism...