E8 Comet Mustang P-51B - 18 Inch Wingspan Balsa Wood Flying Model Kit
Wood Model Kit, Box Condition: Fair+
Much older 1940s Comet issue of this rubber-powered, stick-and-tissue flying model. Features a large sheet of printwood, factory-cut spars and stringers, fully finished wooden whees, dowel for gear struts, clear canopy material, nose block and other stock wood parts as required, covering tissue and Comet's excellent full size plans that including building notes and historical information. Never started and complete with all parts and includes all paperwork. These aircraft models were common from the 1930s to the early 1950s when the sport of free-flight model airplanes was at it's zenith. It was not uncommon to see one fly for 45 minutes or more on rubber power alone - many flew out of site, and it became common practice to write your name, address and phone number on the covering tissue. 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.
$46.00