MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM 1960, 50 years ago

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You would've been as happy as a clam if Santa were to have brought you one of these toy planes 50 years ago - Tomiyama's SUPER SONIC JETLINER.



Look at all those features: it's two feet long, one of the largest tintoy planes made. Never mind that the engine/tail assembly is impossible in real life - it's a dramatic, fun toy. Welcome, space age.

Here is the advertisement:

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Close up of those four pilots in their twin teardrop-shaped canopies. Other photos will follow: the photo hosting web site is really sluggish and cantankerous ! ! !

They include: the airport gangway (same as that used with the DC-7s and 707s), the happy passengers and the underside of the jet engines showing the Tomiyama Mouse logo. Formerly, the company had used "ET Co." in a circle with triangles inside of it.

This plane has resided in my display case for ten years now, and this is my first photo shoot. Thankfully, the tires are still in very nice conditions with no flattening.

[grwebster]

A lovely piece- beautiful condition. Must be very rare.
Merry Christmas, Tone
GR

[Dakota]

looks fantastic! keep showing photos of your impressive collection

merry xmas & happy new year to you too

[fliegerii]

Here are my supersonic greetings of Santa received TODAY

... Daiya Boeing SST, hard to find in LH livery...

[MichaelB]

Beautiful piece, Tony! A real charmer!

[MichaelB]

From my buddy Chris Bryan...
Merry Christmas, y'all! ...and may all your memories be bright!

[Tone]

Thank you All for your replies!

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Here are the passengers in the windows, a close-up of that troublesome tail section, and the undersides of the jet engines.

[craviola990]

This is BLOWING MY MIND!!!

Incredible, amazing stuff...

Any chance of seeing the full ad for this with the Rotodyne above???

Christian