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Speaking of flying things of long ago does anyone remember the Cascelloid Challenger?
It must have been about the first of the ready-to-fly models, and came out in 1950 (there is an advert for it the November 1950 Aeromodeller, which is also the one the Tomboy came out in). It was an all plastic (of some sort) 13 1/2" span control liner powered by a thundering ED Bee. They were moulded in white but then sprayed silver with RAF roundels on it. I had a second hand one in the later 50s and flew it endlessly at our local park on 20' thread lines. It was virtually indestructable and we probably wore the motor out before it gave up the ghost. It's looks were not too far removed from the KK Phantom. I can't recall what eventually came of it.
It must have been about the first of the ready-to-fly models, and came out in 1950 (there is an advert for it the November 1950 Aeromodeller, which is also the one the Tomboy came out in). It was an all plastic (of some sort) 13 1/2" span control liner powered by a thundering ED Bee. They were moulded in white but then sprayed silver with RAF roundels on it. I had a second hand one in the later 50s and flew it endlessly at our local park on 20' thread lines. It was virtually indestructable and we probably wore the motor out before it gave up the ghost. It's looks were not too far removed from the KK Phantom. I can't recall what eventually came of it.