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Who Designed Wheaties Wings
These models pop-up from time to time on ebay claiming that they are Rigby models. While they are Rigby-like, they are not in fact, designed by Rigby. I know that at some point on this forum someone posted the name of the actual designer. Who was it?
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It says Jack Armstrong on the model prints. Google comes up with a few.
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Don't know who designed them, but Jack Armstrong was a radio show character.
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Jack Armstrong was "The All American Boy" who was the symbol of Wheaties, The Breakfast of Champions, and so his name was used on the Wheaties airplanes.
This is the text of the label I use when I display my Wheaties models. I THINK this was my source: https://www.worthpoint.com/worthoped...ties-132873198 During World War II, the General Mills company placed cardboard airplane models in boxes of Wheaties cereal . The models were designed by Fred D. Myers, using a tab and slot construction method also used by Wallis Rigby, who developed many paper models of ships, airplanes, automobiles, and other machines. Some of Rigby’s models appeared in the Sunday comic pages of American newspapers and remained popular into the 1950s. |
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Don, you can always be counted in for great info! Thanks!
Apparently the Worthpoint listing used Charles Province as their information source. Quote:
Curt Last edited by ashevilleangler; 04-02-2019 at 08:27 AM. |
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The Wayback Machine redirects the url from rigbypapermodels.com to rigbypapermodels.com I can't access it at the moment but someone else might.
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Bob,
neither page is a functional website, it is a place holder, the domain is for sale
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Many thanks, Curt. It is possible that Charles Province and the Rigby Club was actually the source of my information. I just can't pin it down (I am not always very well organized). I'm sorry to hear that it no longer has a web presence, but I am glad to add your Province quotation to my Wheaties files.
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To add to the confusion, I found this page. It’s the General Mills history blog run by the company.
It shows the Jack Armstrong plane as being a pre-assembled plane you could get after buying 2 boxes of Wheaties cereal. Nothing on the other Wheatley’s planes: https://blog.generalmills.com/2011/1...rplane-legacy/ JoeG
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Thanks for trying Rick. I was blocked when I tried but the Wayback Machines said it was a current url and therefore not archived.
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