Concept Aircraft - 1950s

The escalating Cold War, coupled with breakthroughs in rocket, jet and nuclear technologies, lead to some wild and highly imaginative speculative aircraft designs during the 1950s.  This was also the decade in which the plastic model industry was born, and first-generation companies like Monogram, Revell, Lindberg and Aurora were more than eager to please their demanding customers -- principally young boys -- with dramatic visions of "things to come."
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GOODYEAR GA-28B TURBOPROP CONVOY FIGHTER
(1950)
Fantastic Plastic
1:72
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MARTIN MODEL 262 VTOL TURBOPROP CONVOY FIGHTER
(1950)
Fantastic Plastic
1:72
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NORTHROP N-63
VTOL TURBOPROP
CONVOY FIGHTER
(1950)   
Fantastic Plastic
1:72
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SIKORSKY XV-2 (1951)
Anigrand Craftswork
1:72
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NORD 500 HARPON
(1953)
Sharkit
1:72
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SUPERMARINE TYPE 553
(1953)
Sharkit
1:72
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MIG-19
(1954)
Aurora
N/A
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AMERICAN ATOMIC-POWERED BOMBER
(1955)
Fantastic Plastic
1:144
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BARNES WALLIS "SWALLOW" SST
(1955)
Fantastic Plastic
1:144
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LIPPISCH AERODYNE
 (1955)
Unicraft
1:72
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VICKERS-ARMSTRONG 559
(1955)
Fantastic Plastic 
1:72
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AVRO 730
(1956)
Fantastic Plastic
​1:144
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NORTHROP NUCLEAR-POWERED FLYING WING
(1956)
Fantastic Plastic
1:144
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BARTINI A-57
SEAPLANE BOMBER
(1956)
Fantastic Plastic 
​1:144
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MACH 3 JETLINER
(1958)
Lindberg Line
​1:180
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USAF 40-FOOT FLYING DISC
(1958)
Fantastic Plastic
​1:72
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XAB-1 "BETA-1" ATOMIC-POWERED BOMBER
(1959)
Hawk
​1:180
CONVAIR XAB-1 ATOMIC-POWERED BOMBER
(1959)
Fantastic Plastic
​1:144
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RUSSIAN ATOMIC-POWERED BOMBER
(1959)
Aurora
N/A
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CONVAIR KINGFISH
(1959)
Fantastic Plastic
1:144