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QUIZ #6

PostPosted: Sat Sep 25, 2010 5:24 pm
by grwebster
Here is an interesting subject for a toy.
Why?
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Re: QUIZ #5

PostPosted: Sat Sep 25, 2010 5:42 pm
by MichaelB
It's the AVRO 707, a miniature version of the Vulcan, used for testing.

Re: QUIZ #5

PostPosted: Sun Sep 26, 2010 8:07 am
by grwebster
Right. Make you wonder, no. With all the great aircraft around at that period, why Mercury would pick a test bed aircraft, and an English one at that.
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Re: QUIZ #5

PostPosted: Sun Sep 26, 2010 12:46 pm
by MichaelB
That's one of the great questions in a lot of cases, eg, why did ZEE choose the F-84 and not the much more well known F-86 to model?

Re: QUIZ #6

PostPosted: Sun Sep 26, 2010 5:41 pm
by Tone
Michael, who cares, I really like the Dyna-Flites toy F-84, it looks cool and the casting is multiple pieces no less ... besides, everybody else made an F-86, what?

:)

Re: QUIZ #6

PostPosted: Sun Sep 26, 2010 6:47 pm
by MichaelB
There aren't all that many F-86 toys either - a bit late for the industry overall, especially for the far east producers which came of age with releases of Viet Nam war planes.
MJB

F-86 toys (off the top of my head)
Cragstan
Mercury
EKO

Re: QUIZ #6

PostPosted: Sun Sep 26, 2010 8:06 pm
by Aeronaut
PlayMe made one too.