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1950s
| The escalating Cold War, coupled with breakthroughs in rocket, jet and nuclear technologies, lead to some wild and highly imaginative speculative aircraft designs during the 1950s. This was also the decade in which the plastic model industry was born, and first-generation companies like Monogram, Revell, Lindberg and Aurora were more than eager to please their demanding customers -- principally young boys -- with dramatic visions of "things to come." |
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SIKORSKY XV-2 (1951) |
SUPERMARINE TYPE 553 (1953) |
MIG-29 (1954) |
LIPPISCH AERODYNE (1955) |
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AMERICAN ATOMIC-POWERED BOMBER (1955) |
NORTHROP NUCLEAR-POWERED FLYING WING (1956) |
MACH 3 JETLINER (1958) |
USAF 40-FOOT FLYING DISC (1958) |
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| RUSSIAN NUCLEAR-POWERED BOMBER (1959) |
XAB-1 BETA-1 ATOMIC-POWERED BOMBER (1959) |
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