Testor's Piper Cub Super Cruiser
September 1949 Air Trails

September 1949 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.

Cox is undoubtedly was the world's largest manufacturer of ready-to-fly control-line model airplanes. Nearly all used some form of their equally famous .049 glow fuel engine. A couple used the .020 engine. Back in the 1960s through probably the 1980s, most kids who learned to fly control line did so with a Cox model - most notably the Cox PT-19 Trainer, which is the one with which I learned to fly. The other contender for control line flyers was Testors, famous in its own right for model dope, enamel spray and brush-on paint, and glow fuel, also produced a few ready-to-fly control line models. Both Cox and Testors used molded plastic construction. This advertisement from a 1949 issue of Air Trails magazine pitches a stick and tissue free flight kit for a Piper Cub Super Cruiser model. That 25¢ price in 1949 is the equivalent of $2.97 in 2022 money (a 12x increase), with is still way less that you would pay for a kit of that type today.

Testor's Piper Cub Super Cruiser Ad

Here It Is! A Really Terrific Smash-Hit Kit That's the Biggest Value You Ever Saw

Testors Piper Cub Super Cruiser

Only 25¢

It Really Flies!

All Parts Pre-Cut and Ready for Assembling

Never before have you seen such amazing value packed into a kit at 25¢ as you will find in this newest Testor sensation! It's the biggest headline story in the entire model industry ... it will set a fast new pace in flight-club circles for months to come! First-quality die-cut balsa ... quick, easy, fit-into-place assembly ... sleek, trim lines that give you a real flying beauty. Don't wait. Be among the first to hit the sky-ways with your Testor's Piper Cub Super Cruiser! At your dealer's ...

• Rubber Powered • Overall length: 13" • Wing Span: 18" • Wing width: 3" • All die-cut balsa construction • Kit complete with rubber band, propeller, formed wire landing gear and prop hook, hardwood wheels and thrust button.

Testor Chemical company (Woodworking Division) Rockford, Illinois

Posted April 2, 2022