Old rubber-powered models

[yukonjohn]

Does anyone remember a rubber-power flying model that looked like the Curtis Hawk molded from some kind of thin plastic. Seems to me I had one as well as another model, maybe a P-40, made from the same material when I was a kid. Every once and a while I get kind of flash backs when I see Hawk photos, but cannot quite place it.
John

[Butelczynski]

You might be thinking of Guillow models.

For the most part they are balsa but many have some parts out of plastic.Things like cowlings,props,canopies etc.Most ,if not all,are made to be powered with rubber loop.

There are many videos of those on YT build as if,scaled up and down,powered with gas engines etc.Design is pretty flexible from what I've seen.

They did Curtis Hawk in few versions and P-40 in at least one.Someone converted that to P-36,made it into RC gas powered model and painted it Finnish.i think that's also on YT somewhere.

[wag]

Were they Lindberg kits?https://www.oldmodelkits.com/index.p...-Model-925-100

[wag]

https://www.oldmodelkits.com/index.p...-Model-926-100

[yukonjohn]

Ah yes. Lindberg - they were pretty fragile, but lasted a few flights if you got them trimmed early enough . Thanks for that. I found an advert page online and I think I even had the PT Trainer kit now that I see it. Those were definitely the good old days when you see those prices.

I can now sleep at nights knowing they were not a figment of my aging imagination.
John

[Butelczynski]

I don't think I have ever seen those.Maybe I did,just not registered

[southwestforests]

Originally Posted by yukonjohn

I found an advert page online and I think I even had the PT Trainer kit now that I see it.

Interesting, my conscious memory says they are unfamiliar but my subconscious memory recalls the feel of the vacuformed plastic. Which memory is real?