Models from old original construction sets

[pedwards2932]

Very cool!  I remember mostly the Comet kits and Guillows.  I never got a Comet kit completed as a kid.  The only rubber powered I got to fly was the Guillow Lancer.  Impatience of youth I guess.

[Stunthenk]

In the early 'eighties I bought a number of Comet kits for sale at the local hobby shop. In the 'eighties and 'nineties I built a small number of them, starting with the Cloud Buster and the smaller and larger Curtiss Robins. The latter with a Telco. I never used the rubber in the box, though and even then I knew enough to lighten the structure of the Robins. I even built the P-38 Lightning but never had the nerve to fly it. Later I built the Aeronca which became my first model to fly succesfully indoors and the Ryan SC that did not. More recently I refurbished the Lightning and built the larger Robin new from the old plan, again with a Telco. The Piper J5 Cub Cruiser is presently  my best flying indoor model. There are about 8 kits left in the stash. These kits are the best investment I ever made!