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I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.

Wednesday, June 27, 2018

B is for Brucey Bonus - INGAP Aviogetti

Can't remember if we've had these or not, but looking for something to throw up here quickly, they'll do!

Aeroplanes; Aircraft; Aviogetti; Delta Dart; Hawker Hunter; Ingap; Italian Toys; Italy; Made In Italy; Mig; Novelty Toy; Padova; Plastic Model; Plastic Novelty; Plastic Toys; Russian Craft; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; War Planes;
French at the top, British and American in the middle, a Soviet at the bottom, there is at least one other set with another four, and a larger card with five or seven (?) airliners. That's it - Italian, carded rack-toy, 1950's or early 1960's, polystyrene, war-planes with paper sticker, national roundels.

It struck me that the French put large targets on their 'planes so any old baddie can have a pop at 'putting a cap in their ass', we put small ones on ours, so only worthily accurate enemies need apply!

2 comments:

Terranova47 said...

When it came to being really good sports you have to hand it to the Royal Flying Corps. If you see photos of the early 'pusher' aircraft such as the FE2 the roundel was in fact a target positioned exactly where the two man crew sat.

It was later in the war when they realised the German flyers could shoot accurately that the roundel was moved to the fusalage sides behind the crew.

Hugh Walter said...

HeeHee! While the Soviets are daring and the Americans determined to be hit by someone!

H