All rocking toys varieties came from a rocking horse toy, and rocking horses became popular somewhere in the 18th century, when Queen Victoria visited some workshop in Liverpool. She ordered one beautiful carved rocking horse for herself and in very short period of time these rocking toys spread all over the Europe. Our rocking airplane toy plan has beautifully shaped and well constructed child’s toy that will last for generations. So, if you decide to make it your children will be proud to hand it down to the next generation of children in your family. When someone of the children sits for the first time on the airplane toy and start to rock to and fro with rockers, the rocking sensation brings the biggest smile on his face. An not just for the first time, all children will have enormous fun each time when piloting this beautiful, retro airplane rocker.


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Rocking airplane parts list


Rocking airplane assembly 2D drawing


1. Rocker	2. platform


3. Bottom wing	4. Fuselage side


5. Fuselage center	6. Fuselage side mirror


7. Top wing	8. Horizontal tail


9. Seat	10. Rocker mirror


11. Rocker crossbar	14. Wing connector


15. Propeller disk	16. Propeller


17. Propeller shaft	18. propeller spinner


19. Control panel	20. Indicator


28. Plug	29. Lower support side


35. Pipe D22mm	36. Flange


37. Lower support	Rocking airplane standard parts


Assemblage instructions In this project, you should drill pilot hole, before screwing each Wood screw.

1. Join the Rocker (part 1), Rocker mirror (part 10) and the Rocker crossbars (part 11) together with glue.


2. Attach the Platforms (part 2) to the subassembly made in previous step with Woodscrews D5 x 55mm (part 27). Glue the Plugs (part 28) on top of each Woodscrews head.


3. Weld the Pipe D22mm (part 35) and Flanges (part 36) together.


4. Weld together the Pipe D22mm (part 35), Flanges (part 36), Lover support sides (part 29) and the Lower support (part 37). Make two of these subassemblies.


5. Join the Fuselage side (part 4), Fuselage center (part 5) and the Fuselage side mirror (part 6) together with glue.


6. Attach the Horizontal tail (part 8) with glue to the subassembly made in previous step.


7. Fasten the Control panel (part 19) to the subassembly made in the previous step using Woodscrews D3 x 35mm (part 34), and then attach the Indicators (part 20) with glue into the holes on the Control panel (part 19).



8. Fasten the Seat (part 9) with Woodscrews D5 x 55mm (part 27) to the subassembly made in the previous step. Glue the Plugs (part 28) on top of each Woodscrews head.


9. Join together with glue Bottom wing (part 3), the Top wing (part 7) and Wing connectors (part 14).


10. Following the dimensions from 2D documentation, fasten the subassembly from the previous step to the subassembly made in step 8 using Woodscrews D5 x 55mm (part 27), and then glue the Plugs (part 28) on top of each Woodscrews head.


11. Glue the Propeller shaft (part 17) into the hole with 19mm (0,75in) diameter, that’s on the Fuselage center (part 5). Put the Propeller disk (part 15) on the Propeller shaft and fasten it with Woodscrews D5 x 55mm (part 27). Glue the Plugs (part 28) on top of each Woodscrews head. Put the Propeller (part 16) onto the Propeller shaft (part 17) and glue the Propeller spinner (part 18).


12. Fasten the subassembly made in step 3 to the subassembly made in step 2 using Countersunk screws M5 x 35mm (part 21), Washers D5,3mm (part 22), Spring lock washers D5mm (part 38) and Hexagon nuts M5 (part 24). Then fasten the 2 subassemblies made in step 4 to the subassembly made in step 2 using Pan head screws M6 x 55mm (part 33), Spring lock washers D6mm (part 23) and Hexagon nuts M6 (part 32). You can use the Pan head screw M5 x 55mm instead of standard Pan head screw M6 x 55mm and decrease the number of standard parts in your construction.


13. All that you need to do now is to fasten the subassembly made in step 11 to the subassembly from the previous step. To make rocking as good as can be, you need to make this fastening on determined distance A (see the picture below).

The A distance depends mostly on: • the type of wood you used (its density and mass), • the child’s weight, • accuracy in making and joining the parts, • the mass of metal parts (for example, the aluminium is almost 3 times lighter then steel). ... The standard parts like the Pipe D22mm (part 35), Flanges (part 36), Lover support sides (part 29) and the Lower support (part 37) does not have to be out of steel – you can easily use some other metals, or they alloys. This distance is best to establish by trying the certain distance variety. You can do this by fastening the subassemblies with the woodworking clamps on some A distance and ask your child to try to rock the toy. For the best result, repeat this procedure with a different A distances and choose the best one for your child. Then mark holes, drill the pilot holes and attach the subassemblies one on other with the Woodscrews D 5 x 25 (part 26) and Wood screws D5 x 35 (part 25).