Thursday, September 5, 2013

Power Prop Gliders - Introduction

This is my collection of Power Prop Gliders which happen come in red & blue bags.  This collection is different from the Power Prop Gliders which come in the red & yellow bags.  I am not sure whether the red & blue bag set is older than the red & yellow bag set, or vice versa.

Power Prop Gliders
This collection is confusing to me because some of the gliders are labeled as being made in Japan, other in China and others in Taiwan.  One glider came in a white bag.  Some appear to be of much higher quality and detail than others.  There also appears to be 3 different sets of 12 as shown on the reverse side of the packages.

I put the number of each glider that I own in ( )'s.  I am missing the YAK Type 2 and a whole bunch of the third set shown at the bottom. I consider the first 2 sets listed to be identical other than #9.

One set is shown as:
1. Hawker Hurricane (1)
2. Messerschmitt BF109E (2)
3. Grumman F6F Hellcat (2)
4. Supermarine Spitfire MK. II (3)
5. Type 4 Fighter Hayate (2)
6. Type Zero Carrier Fighter (4)
7. Focke Wulf FW190 (2)
8. Republic P-47 Thunderbolt (1)
9. YAK Type 2
10. North American P-51 Mustang (2)
11. Type 3 Fighter Hien (2)
12. Lockheed P-38 (1)
(For some reason the P-38 is shown as #13 and the Type Zero Carrier Fighter is shown as #6 and #12??)

Power Prop Gliders
Another set is virtually the same except #9:
1. Hawker Hurricane (1)
2. Messerschmitt BF109E (2)
3. Grumman F6F Hellcat (2)
4. Supermarine Spitfire MK. II (3)
5. Type 4 Fighter Hayate (2)
6. Type Zero Carrier Fighter (4)
7. Focke Wulf FW190 (2)
8. Republic P-47 Thunderbolt (1)
9. Curtis P-40 Tomahawk (1)
10. North American P-51 Mustang (2)
11. Type 3 Fighter Hien (2)
12. Lockheed P-38 (1)
(For some reason the P-38 is shown as #13 and the Type Zero Carrier Fighter is shown as #6 and #12??)

Power Prop Gliders
Another set is shown as:
1. Focke Wulf FW190
2. Focke Wulf FW190A-4
3. Airacobra P-39
4. Type 4 Fighter Hayate
5. Sparrow 13 (1)
6. Curtis P-40 Warhawk
7. Republiv P-47 Thunderbolt
8. Type 2 Fighter Shoki (2)
9. Messerschmitt BF-109
10. Supermarine Spitfire
11. Type 3 Fighter Hien (1, but the contents appear to be a Supermarins Spitfire)
12. Type 1 Fighter

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8 comments:

  1. UnknownNovember 24, 2013 at 11:32 AM

    This set I only encountered twice when I was around 8-9 years old! The Focke Wulf and the Bf-109 still had Swastikas even in 2001! brilliant fliers all of them, shame they only lasted 3 months in my local card shop...before the Chinese rubbish came in...

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  2. Power Prop GlidersNovember 26, 2013 at 7:42 PM

    Most of these are quite nice. I read from one of the other comments left on this blog that these were among the first gliders made & sold. The true originals were made by Imperial Toy Corporation. Some of the packages do have the Imperial Toy Corporation logo on them. I think that some of the others in my collection without the Imperial Toy Corporation logo are counterfeits.

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  3. UnknownNovember 27, 2013 at 3:19 AM

    They must be, because its all down to quality and also logo's on the packets as you describe, I always go by the Propeller logo next to the title Flying Gliders, but turns out also that some of these with the prop logo are also counterfeited types!

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  4. Power Prop GlidersNovember 27, 2013 at 9:29 PM

    Yah, I got burned by that once too. I have a set of the gliders in the red and yellow packages that actually contained counterfeits of the ones in the blue & red packages. Thankfully I didn't pay much for them.

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  5. AnonymousApril 3, 2018 at 8:25 PM

    These planes are older then the red and yellow, they were also much nicer the oldest ones I remember had a really nice red prop, much better than blue props, years purchased 78, 79, 80, 81. They were my favorite toy as a kid.

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  6. GBSDecember 14, 2020 at 11:49 AM

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  7. GBSDecember 14, 2020 at 11:50 AM

    Multiple gliders with the same number? That's a bit wacky.
    Anyways, are they safe to fly indoors?

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