Comet Fokker D-VII - 16 Inch Wingspan Flying Model, E16

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Comet Fokker D-VII - 16 Inch Wingspan Flying Model, E16 plastic model kit

E16 Comet Fokker D-VII - 16 Inch Wingspan Flying Model

Wood Model Kit,   Box Condition: VG

Very nice stick and tissue kit from the late 1940s. Features a sheet quality printwood, strip stock in two sizes, covering tissue, balsa block, finished hardwood wheels, dowel and full size plans in very good condition. The kit has never been started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts. 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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