Comet Piper Cub - 26 inch Wingspan For Free Flight or R/C Conversion, 3406-150

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Comet Piper Cub - 26 inch Wingspan For Free Flight or R/C Conversion, 3406-150 plastic model kit

3406-150 Comet Piper Cub - 26 inch Wingspan For Free Flight or R/C Conversion

Wood Model Kit,   Box Condition: Exc

Large 26" wingspan flying kit can be powered by rubber, electric and made into RC with modern tiny and lightweight servos and receivers. Kit features traditional wood/tissue construction, printwood, stripwood, spars, finished wheels and thrust button, rubber motor, clear canopy material, tissue, propeller and detailed full size plans with building instructions. The model has not been started. Inventoried with all parts and paperwork present Comet was a famous manufacturer of stick and tissue flying and static models. In the 1930s Great Depression, they lead the low-priced kit revolution with the "Dime Scale" kits and famous advertisements in Model Airplane News magazine and others. Comet reached it's peak in the 1930s when they acquired the services of Carl Goldberg. Goldberg was a highly accomplished modeler with articles in Model Airplane News and famous designs that won him several National level competitions in the 1930s and beyond. (Carl Goldberg went on to found his own company and produced well designed and popular free-flight and RC aircraft). Comet survived the post World War economic slump and continued kit production until they were bought out by long-time competitor Guillow's in 1998.

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