Abstract: A toy or model airplane including a drive and attitude control system for simulating actual aircraft maneuvers including taxiing, take-off, climb, descent, turns and landing. The system includes a toy airplane suspended by a tether from a moveable platform magnetically fixed or coupled to the lower surface of a false ceiling. A drive vehicle supported on the upper surface of the false ceiling is magnetically coupled to the lower platform to provide forward velocity to the platform and the tethered toy airplane. The moveable suspended platform includes a drive motor which is coupled to the airplane tether to allow raising or lowering the tether airplane for altitude change simulation. The toy airplane fuselage houses additional drive motors for simulating attitude changes including roll and pitch maneuvers. In an alternate embodiment, the tethered airplane may be supported from a track-like mechanism coupled to a conventional ceiling.