Model Aviation Comics
November 1953 Air Trails

November 1953 Air Trails

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.

Here is another set of model aviation-themed comics, this time from the November 1953 issue of Air Trails magazine. Interestingly, the middle comics mentions an "X-115" experimental airplane that claims to be able to hit 850 miles per hour. It seems to be an obvious allusion to the North American X-15 airplane, which on its first light on June 8, 1959 was flown by Scott Crossfield to a speed 840 kilometer per hour. Mach 0.79 = 522 mi/hr, Mach 1 = 1,235 km/hr = 767 mi/hr. The two numbers are amazing close, although the units are different. There is a list at the bottom of the page with links to all the model aviation-themed comics I have scanned and posted so far. Enjoy! 

Model Aviation Comics

Page 55

"I think it looks silly, too, but the designer claims it will do 850 m.p.h.," page 63

Pages 66 & 67

Posted November 24, 2018

Vintage Model Aircraft Comics:

• Model Aviation Comics of Yore:

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• May 1957 American Modeler
• February 1941 Flying Aces
• January 1961 American Modeler
• June 1960 Aero Modeller
• November 1948 Air Trails
• January 1957 American Modeler
• June 1957 American Modeler
• October 1958 American Modeler
• November 1957 American Modeler
• May 1958 Flying Models
• June 1959 American Modeler
• February 1967 American Modeler
• December 1959 American Modeler
• 1961 Annual Edition American Modeler
• April 1957 American Modeler
• April 1961 American Modeler
• November 1953 Air Trails
• November 1950 Air Trails
• November 1959 American Modeler
• October 1957 American Modeler
• September 1957 American Modeler
• March 1971 American Aircraft Modeler
• February 1957 American Modeler
• February 1961 American Modeler
• July 1957 American Modeler
• July 1959 American Modeler
• March 1957 American Modeler
• March 1959 American Modeler
• August 1959 American Modeler
• August 1961 American Modeler
• December 1961 American Modeler
• August 1957 American Modeler