Desperately Seeking Sleek Streeks

Google "Sleek Streek" and you'll find legions of old guys pining away for the good old days of simple, reliable stick gerpers with real balsa wings. Sadly the little clip-together models can no longer be found at corner stores, and we must now either build our own or pay eBay sellers huge sums to satisfy our longings. Even good information about these planes and the North Pacific Products Company that originally produced the Sleek Streek, the Skeeter, the Star Flier, and the Strato is hard to come by. That’s why I was delighted to run across this blog post. More interesting than the post itself is the accompanying November 13, 2009, comment by Nancy Cleveland, daughter of one of the NP Company's founders. She talks about her father, NP co-founder Charles H. Cleveland, and provides some interesting details on the history of the company and the manufacturing techniques that helped make the planes so special.