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We should have asked you first, Ken! This is the mother load of information and answers most of the questions!
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My, my....this could go on for ages! The link Zakopious posted, "Jack Armstrong" has links to many old time radio shows, long forgotten. I was whisked back to 1943, lying on the living room floor, listening with fascination to "Hop Harrigan, Ace of the Airways".
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It's a bottomless pit of nostalgia. When I was asked why I became an Army East Asia Foreign Area Officer, I used to answer, "Because I listened to Terry and the Pirates on the radio as a kid."
Hop Harrigan was great too! Incidentally, I have a complete collection of bound Milton Caniff-era Terrys, all of Scorchy Smith 1933-1936, the wartime Captain Easy (when he was a Navy pilot), and a fair amount of Steve Canyon. I followed other aviation comic strips, including Smilin' Jack, but compared to the others, he was too - er - cartoonish. Don |
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These models were also my introduction to paper models in 1966. They were a Wheaties re-issued premium with the tagline "Remember how well they flew!". I had no idea what they meant by that until many years later. BTW, it took two boxes of cereal and a quarter at that time. I remember getting a Zero and a Mustang.
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Wow! It's been a while but finally had my login re-set and now I'm back.
The latest re-paint of a Wheaties/Jack Armstrong penny flier is a P-47 in my vBDownloads. Currently I am trying to upload some pics of how I put together the wing with a balsa reinforcement - the original design had stabilizer, rudder and wing as a thicker paper instead of 2 pieces folded onto each other. The tricky part of this design is that you need to glue just around the edges or wrinkling will occur, and that if you don't set the dihedral prior to gluing you get a sagging downward ... pouting wing. These little flying models were also what piqued my interest in paper modelling, and were a gift from my brother a few years ago - Originals from 1944! and the Fairey Fulmar was one. ;-)
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The sky ranger was the pre assembled plane in1940
The Wheaties wings was from 1943-1944. I have the whole collection, and other stuff Let me know if you need any information. |
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Once in a great while, the original vintage 1940's era "Jack Armstrong" penny flyers turn up on eBay. I have been able to pick up a few of the originals that way. They certainly existed and still exist. What confirmation would be good?
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Don, I know it's been a very long time since I stopped the Rigby Website, but it was just too much work and I ain't gettin' any younger. Anyway, Wheaties Planes discussed in this thread were, iindeed, created by Fred Myers for General Mills. I have a copy of the original copyright for the paper-model airplanes and have actually used the picture from the copyright to make a couple of them. Very interesting. If you will contact me at my personal email I can send copies of the copyright to you . . . [email protected] . . . this same information is published in my book Paper Model Monarch all about the great Wallis Rigby. All the best. Mike Province.
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