If you like the Project SWORD Scramble Bug then take a look at the origin of the tyres in Popular Mechanics way back in the American south...

 My best guess as to the steps that were taken before Project SWORD's plastic friction Probe Force 3 appeared in 1967. (* The Green Mons...

I've always liked the original Sand Flea designed by Eric Eden seen here in the 1966 Thunderbirds Summer Extra bottom left. I thought I...

This might as well be Project SWORD hangar! The Lifting Body era of America. Space Gliders and more! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxUd3h-...

Merry Christmas to you and the rest of the Moonbase Central community! I thought you would be interested in this, the Soviet Union's Ily...

I 've featured this before but I just love it so much. The Marsh Buggies of the old South and widely covered at the time in American and...

There are two, yes two Japanese Tomy Apollo-X rockets in this footage of Tochgi toy village factory. The Apollo X was the forerunner of the ...

Here's a series of quotes and extracts about Project SWORD I've collated from people who where there at the time and worked for or w...

This is an interesting article on various Soviet space planes including the Spiral. There's a really great looking model Spiral as wel...

Hi Woodsy https://slideplayer.com/slide/9675941/ check out slide number 9 and slide 11 Cheers Jim P

Hi Woodsy You might like this one. https://www-robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/miscellaneousImage.cfm?ImgCat=Miscellaneous&Image=369 Ch...

I love this old ad I saw on Yahoo Japan. It shows three of Otaki's model racers. The brown one is the monster based on the ...

Today's fascinating discussion about the LP Moon Explorer Car tyres reminded of the mysterious wheels on another model I have, Imai...

Hi Woodsy, I have always liked the LP Moon Explorer Car you featured recently , which was the Spanish version this time. It l...

This post re-posts and combines a few very old blog articles about the smaller accessory ships found with Project SWORD and SpaceX toys. So...

Ages ago I established the likely link between the Otaki Monster car kit and the Project SWORD Probe Force 3. The origin of them all is t...

This die-cast Corgi Silver Streak looks superb in this online picture. It's also called the Swedish Jet Dragster. I'm u...

Above: NASA 1965 I think there's a very similar Project SWORD cutaway in SOLO comic.

I've blogged this before many times. Browsing Ebay reader Tony K reminded me just how fabulous it looks recently and as I'm such a ...

This is a decent video demonstration of the functions of the 1960 Astro Base by Ideal. Its a You Tubed sales pitch from 2010 by a chap...