1/500 F128 Frog Airship R-100 - With Mooring Mast and Color Display Base
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good++
Rare and excellent kit from the 1950s. Features a full-color, thick cardboard base, large Montreal Mooring Mast, detailed airship with clear engine pods & passenger gondola and more. The model includes a clever set of metal rods that allows the airship to be displayed 'floating' in mid-air from the mooring mast. The actual R-100 kits measures about 17 inches long. Never started and inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions. The R-100 was built by a Vickers Subsidiary. The famous Barnes Wallis worked on her design, which lead to the innovative geodesic airframe used for the Wellington and two other aircraft. The R-100 made a successful Transatlantic flight. Although there were issues, the design was sound. However, the government-built R-101 was not as soundly engineered and crashed on her maiden voyage, forever bringing an end to the Airship in the British Isles. The R-100 was sold for scrap and R-102 was never built.
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