Hello woodsy,
In looking at your blog and being amazed at the quality of model building by your contributors, and I exclude my own clumsy efforts, I am reminded of how building models was once considered a suitable hobby for kids.
Back in 1959 I made my first cross Atlantic flight from NYC to London in a BOAC DC7C prop aircraft, a grueling 11 hours. To pass the hours BOAC gave the attached to kids to entertain themselves.
How this was to be done without tools, glue etc didn't concern BOAC they provided them and that was it.
British Airways carries on this indifference to passengers, luckily flight time is less now.
So for your in flight entertainment, pre SST, try making these models with your bare hands!
REMEMBER: You are someone special to BOAC (Edward Scissorhands with a glue pot for starters)
Regards,
Terranova47
NYC
This nostalgic collectible is stunning! The graphics by themselves are amazing, but the idea that you could put together a paper model of a jetliner, too good to be true! I recall building paper (or card) models of aircraft back in the day, but it was mostly WW2 fighters - I don't recall any airliners. Now, of course, today paper modeling has become a "thing," and you can buy all sorts of wonderful (and very complicated) paper models of all sorts of civilian and commercial aircraft. I did have a plastic model of the BOAC 707 at one point. Airfix or Comet maybe? Those were the days.
ReplyDeleteWhat the scans do not show is the thinness of the paper which has the quality of a thin paper hand towel. The amazing drawings of the models being launched by rubber band would fall foul of any truth in advertising laws today.
ReplyDeleteAwesome! Thanx for these! I built a Kellogg's paper Boeing 707 and liked how it turned out. Luv paper models!
ReplyDeleteThe Kellogg's thin card packaging was ideal for rigidity. BOAC chose a floppy paper for the intricate parts.
DeleteI must admit I had a good BA flight- the best meal I have ever had on an aircraft, and my partner and I managed to get seconds!
ReplyDeleteIts years since we flew BA. In years past our young daughter was alble to fly with them alone with a BA escort so she could see he Grandparents on the continent. I think it was called Junior Skyriders. Bat they don't do it now.
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