Comet Sabre 44 Ready-to-Fly C/L Model
January 1955 Model Airplane News

January 1955 Model Airplane News

Table of Contents These pages from vintage modeling magazines like Flying Aces, Air Trails, American Modeler, American Aircraft Modeler, Young Men, Flying Models, Model Airplane News, R/C Modeler, captured the era. All copyrights acknowledged.

This full-page advertisement for Comet's Sabre 44 control line "gas" model appeared in the January 1955 issue of Model Airplane News. Ready-to-fly "gas" models were just entering the market at the time. The "All Plastic" model preceded Cox's popular line of ready-to-fly plastic control line models. Whereas the Cox models used their own line of .049 and .020 glow fuel engines, Comet used the 1/2A-Herkimer 049B engine. The $9.95 price tag in 1995 is the equivalent of $101.25 today, which is really about what such a model with engine would cost now if anyone made such a product (which they don't).

Comet Sabre 44 Control Line Gas Model Ad

All Plastic

High-Impact Plastic

Simply Terrific!

Ready to Fly

Kit No. PLM-44

"Sensational" - "beautiful" - there just aren't words to describe this amazing new U-Control, ready-to-fly Comet Gas Model! True to its name, the Sabre 44 "slashes" through" the air with all the flashing performance of its modern swept-back-wing jet fighter design, powered by its own 1/2A-Herkimer 049B Gas Engine! Molded from high-impact plastic in two colors, it is strikingly packaged in a 3-color protective case, complete with transparent cockpit canopy; control handle, control lines, decal markings and insignia, and flying instruction leaflet. With a wing-span of 14 inches and a length of 14 3/8 inches, the Sabre 44 has an approximate weight of only 5 ounces! Nothing to build or assemble - the Sabre 44 is truly ready-to-fly!

Complete with Powerful 1/2A Herkimer .049B

Gas Engine

Comet

Comet Model Hobbycraft, Inc.

501 West 35th Street - Chicago 16, Illinois

Posted July 28, 2021