Comet P-38 Lightning - 34 Inches Wingspan - Coca-Cola Bottle Issue, Y5-129

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Comet P-38 Lightning - 34 Inches Wingspan - Coca-Cola Bottle Issue, Y5-129 plastic model kit

Y5-129 Comet P-38 Lightning - 34 Inches Wingspan - Coca-Cola Bottle Issue

Wood Model Kit,   Box Condition: VG++

Part of the deluxe high-cost Comet "Y" kit line from the 1950s/early 1960s. Note the box showing a bottle of Coke next to the young builder's snack tray and a finished aircraft. Big-wingspan model features traditional wood/tissue construction, high quality printwood, stripwood and spars, balsa nose and engine blocks, fully formed wooden thrust buttons, scale wood props, other balsa stock as required, completely preformed wood wheels, one big insignia sheet that also has windshield cutting patterns, air scoops and other details, another large sheet with fillets, gear doors and many other patterns, covering tissue and superb full size plans with instructions. The model has not been started. It has been inventoried complete. NOTE: a narrow strip (.5 inches x 4 inches) of one print wood sheet is not present; it appears to be a factory flaw in the wood. There is one part effected: one prop blade. At the time of this kit, the entire Comet "Y" line consisted of Y1 F-51 Mustang, Y2 A-26 Invader, Y3 P-47, Y4 Hellcat F6f, Y5 P-38 Lightning, Y6 F-84F Thunderflash, Y7 Cougar F9F, Y8 Taylorcraft, Y9 Douglas Skyray F4D, Y10 Piper Cub Super Cruiser, Y11 Douglas Skystreak D558-1, Y12 F-86 Sabre, Y13 Gull and Y14 Aeronca Chief. 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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