Assembling plastic scale kits and flying radio-controlled models are popular aircraft related hobbies. While toy collectors focus on great looking diecast replicas produced by Dinky and Aero Mini, another type of replica, the tinplate airplane, is endearing to anyone who remembers one from childhood.
When aviation was in its infancy, the dominant German toy manufacturers produced clockwork-powered replicas of early aircraft, such as the Wright Flyer. These toys were designed to be suspended by a wire, propelled in a circle by large Celluloid propellers.
A Japanese-made, wind-uptoy of the British R-100 airship, circa 1930 is 6 1/2" long, tin with Celluloid stern propeller.
In the 1920s and 1930s, aircraft technology advanced, and updated lithographed tinplate clockwork planes were manufactured byTipp
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