Marx Battleground, Training Center, and Other Military Playset Pieces - Marx XF-92 Convair Dart - Silver HP

While most of the posts in this series are new, I am re-posting several items that appeared previously on the blog in stand-alone posts - not part of a series. Unfortunately, for this particular toy, the only photos I have are low-res. It was originally posted in September of 2013 and somewhere along the way I had lost my hard drive - and all the photos on it - to a virus. After recovering from that fiasco, I went back to the blog and downloaded every photo I had previously posted - but those were all low-res. Anywho, I still have this airplane and if I find it out in The Cave I'll take a whole new set of photos, but for now we're gonna go with these. 

The plane first appeared in 1961 playsets as shown in the extract from the Sears 1961 Wishbook. It came with four rockets, two of which hung under the wings and were inserted into spring-loaded mechanism's for firing. It measures: 7.5" (19.05cm) L x 5.25" (13.33cm) wingspan x 2.625" (6.66cm) H.

Ed

1961 Sears Wishbook

Marx XF-92 Convair Dart

Now here's a cool plane from Marx, the XF-92 Convair Dart, the world's first delta winged jet. While the XF-92 was purely an experimental aircraft it did lead aircraft designers to adopt the delta wing design on planes like the F-102 Delta Dagger, F-106 Delta Dart, and B-58 Hustler. The XF-92 first flew in 1948 and testing lasted until 1953. Our Marx version is hard plastic and measures 7 1/2" (19.1cm) L x 5 1/4" (13.3cm) wingspan x 2 5/8" (6.7cm) H. There is a spring-loaded missile firing mechanism on each wing and the plane comes with four missiles each measuring 2 1/4" (5.7cm) L. It has three wheels which are detachable. The real aircraft was simply a test bed aircraft design and not fitted with missiles but Marx liked to make airplanes which were on the cutting edge of technology and which had play value and this one certainly follows that philosophy. Enjoy!

Courtesy Wikipedia: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/XF-92A_Edwards_AFB.jpg

Courtesy US Air Force: http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=2374