1950s Concept Air

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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SIKORSKY XV-2 (1951)

- ANIGRAND CRAFTSWORK -

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SUPERMARINE TYPE 553 (1953)

- SHARKIT -

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NORD 500 HARPON (1953)

-SHARKIT-

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MIG-19 (1954)

- AURORA MODELS -

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LIPPISCH AERODYNE (1955)

- UNICRAFT MODELS -

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AMERICAN ATOMIC-POWERED BOMBER (1955)

- FANTASTIC PLASTIC MODELS -

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BARNES WALLIS "SWALLOW" SST (1955)

- FANTASTIC PLASTIC MODELS -

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NORTHROP NUCLEAR-POWERED FLYING WING (1956)

- FANTASTIC PLASTIC MODELS -

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MACH 3 JETLINER (1958)

- THE LINDBERG LINE -

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USAF 40-FOOT FLYING DISC (1958)

- FANTASTIC PLASTIC MODELS -

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RUSSIAN NUCLEAR-POWERED BOMBER (1959)

- AURORA MODELS -

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XAB-1 BETA-1 ATOMIC-POWERED BOMBER (1959)

- HAWK MODELS -

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XAB-1 BETA-1 ATOMIC-POWERED BOMBER (1959)

- FANTASTIC PLASTIC MODELS -

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