French toy SSTs

[uk 75]

One of the joys of life in the 1960s was the willingness of food manufacturers and magazines to offer as gifts or for purchase models of aircraft and other popular stuff.
A French food manufacturer offered these kits of the three SST airliners of the early 1960s. Thanks to Google images you can enjoy them here.

 

[uk 75]

A rather less impressive set of kits appeared in shops in the 1980s. As was the vogue these were snap-together models with crude stickers instead of transfers.
The makers must have been on mind altering substances as the Lockheed has become a Boeing and vice versa. The so called Valkyrie is totally fictitious.
I did buy them at the time and left bare without stickers they look ok.

 

[southwestforests]

Those are pretty neat. I'd have much enjoyed them back in the day.

 

[Orionblamblam]

The makers must have been on mind altering substances as the Lockheed has become a Boeing and vice versa.

It's worse than that... the "Boeing" became a "Loockheed," whatever the frak that is.

 

[southwestforests]

a "Loockheed," whatever the frak that is.

It means 'heed the loock',
or, pay attention to the garlic,

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[publiusr]

There are so few really good airplane toys now. Certainly no SSTs.

There is one large twin-jet toy with gas turbine engines on the wings but a T-tail.

I don’t know what that could be based on.
It has a button up top for jet sounds.