P1 Comet North American P-51D Mustang - 24 inch Wingspan Scale Flying Model
Wood Model Kit, Box Condition: Good++
Late 1940s/early 1950s large scale issue for rubber flight, or easily converted to RC using today's tiny and light servos and receivers. Kit features traditional wood/tissue construction, sheet of USAF insignia and markings especially for this kit, detailed full size plans, fully carved wooden wheels, clear plastic canopy material, template sheet including canopy, cardstock prop pitch former, balsa blocks, hardwood nose button and tissue. The model has not been started. The parts have been inventoried complete with all parts, plans and insignia sheet. 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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