loosenut

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Lets see your most Vintage (oldest) stuff. I found an estate sale that hade more stuff than most hobby shops.

loosenut

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Scary Times

iflyj3

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Interesting. I was an observer in the Ground Observer corp in the early to mid 50's. We met on Sunday afternoon and practiced.

What is the publication date of your cards?

loosenut

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iflyj3, I did not see a date on the cards. Around what year would you say they were.

iflyj3

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I don't really know what date they would be. I know we had books with the planes information. The cards would have been used for quick recall testing.

loosenut

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Cleveland Model & Supply Company, the oldest, continuously-operating model airplane company in the world, was founded in 1926 by Edward T. Pachasa (later Packard). Mr. Packard started the business with his four brothers, his mother and father in their residence and a converted barn near West 57th Street and Bridge Avenue, on the west side of Cleveland Ohio.

Mr. Packard began the design and manufacture of model airplane kits on a part-time basis in 1919 (hence, the phrase “Model Engineers Since 1919�) at the age of 13 with the “Skylark�. This model aircraft incorporated a pine vee-frame, 28-inch long fuselage and a bird-shaped wing of 24-inch span. the wing and stabilizer were covered with 0.005-inch white fiber. The model was a twin-pusher design powered by two, 6-inch bent-fiber propellers. Mr. Packard made eight “skylarks� and sold five of them at a retail price of $3.50.

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Would you buy a plane from a guy that looks like this Copyright 1940

pd1

From 1929 Aero Digest... Berkeley add from 1942... Albatross from 1934... Nieuport monoplane from 1913.

AH-64_d

Oldest model of known age appears to be a British Bristol Beaufighter 2, WWII recognition model. Had 9 - 2 Italian fighters - Macchi C202 Folgore and a biplane, German BF-110, HE-111, Boeing B-17, Jap Oscar, Lockheed Hudson, British Fairey Firefly and the Beaufighter...It was the only one left after they were stored in the attic when I went off to school. They fell apart in the heat.

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Here's a kit I bought recently - IDEAL RYAN S T from 1935 -

evan-RCU

I have a bunch, two years worth, of a twice a month Dutch modeling newsletter called Avia. I have all of 1940 and 1941. Attached are two random pages. I found them in my wifes uncles things when her aunt died. Considering the dates it's very interesting that modeling was so popular.