Just got in from work to find this treasure in the inbox from Brian B in New York, on the subject of Sikorsky S-51's (previous post, below) and their relationship to Dan Dare! In his own words:
And obviously that's what I was remembering when I mentioned Dan Dare in the other post, you can see where Fairy were coming-from with their Rotodyne too, and the similarities betweens names and designs extends to the IM 'Rotorship'.
I really love the conversions of railway figures (?) to Spacefleet personnel, including two Treens! From the left I think we have Dan, Digby and Sir Hubert Guest, arguing about how to do the dangerously impossible, and save the World . . . again!
Cheers Brian, a real treat!
Two hours later - Brucey Bonus as the rabbit-hole provides!
4 comments:
Thanks for the downthetubes piece. In the 1950's I built a plastic kit of the McDonnell XV-1. In the 1990's I visited the Smithsonian Museums reserve collection of aircraft which to my surprise had the McDonnell XV-1 prototype.
Thank you for the images! There's a 1:32nd scale kit of the McDonnell XV-1, but it doesn't go cheap! The other thing the rabbit-hole revealed is a set of collector-cards by Calvert, which includes a fair few of the vehicles.
H
Thanks Hugh. I have a reissued kit in my stash and a full set of the cards.
Well, if you ever get around to making the former, or scanning the latter . . . !
H
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