Unk Mfr - Tiny Bell X1A

I found more toy airplane photos in my files. This one is made of hard plastic and is only 2" (5.08cm) L x 2 1/8" (5.39cm) wingspan x 3/4" (1.90cm) H and is based on Bell's X1A experimental aircraft. Built in 1945 to test supersonic capabilities, this aircraft was famously flown by Chuck Yeager and was strapped to the bomb bay of a B-29 were it was drop launched.

This airplane looks like one of those that would have been sold in a bag full of airplanes back in the day. I recall seeing bags of mini-planes made by MPC and other companies but as I'm not a big fan of those kinds of toys (many tiny toys in a big bag for .99¢ kind of thing), never researched who would probably have made this. Enjoy! Opa Fritz

Ed's Travelogue: Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) Airshow Oshkosh, Wisconsin August 1978

We interrupt our regulary scheduled program to bring you - AIRPLANES! LOL I have been slowly-but-surely scanning the old photos and finished these up some weeks back. I never really got into air shows until coming here to Nellis. The Experimental Aircraft Association's air shows in Oshkosh, Wisconsin are legend and this was the only one I had ever attended. That's a shame because we had a summer place in Shawano, Wisconsin which was not far from Oshkosh and it would have been a short drive to attend any of these, but I just never got around to going :-(  In 1978 all I had for a camera was my Polaroid SX-70. A fascinating gadget but really not a great camera - just an okay camera. On the day we (my nephews and myself) went to see the show it was overcast and we weren't there that long before the skies started to get threatening so we decided to leave. As it turned out we actually saw a tornado start to form, but before it could gel into something dangerous it dissipated! whew!! I didn't take notes (or at least I can't find them) on any of these planes and only one of them had some scribble on the photo itself. Enjoy! Opa Fritz

This airplane was a reproduction of the famous one flown by Charles Lindbergh