pre-Playmobil geobra toys

[cachalote]

thanks. 
like grahamb i was trying to understand a link between the chindren's logo and the klickies' faces.

[GrahamB]

I meant Hans, not Hand Beck, thanks for correcting it when you quoted me, macruaran. I got one of they spellling correcticon thingies wot stops me from tie-pin whatt I reely want two putt (including "macruaran").

[Macruran]

It seems we can't change our usernames. If we could I would change mine to macruaran.

[GrahamB]

 

[PlayMoto]

[Hadoque]

Thanks for sharing the pre-Playmobil pictures.
I guess someone in the design department was obsessed with phones...
"Helleu, diz iz jiev-inspector Cloustättereau zpeakin on the pheurne"
On the third-last photo, I see in the righttop tiny jetfighter models of a 1950s F-86 Sabre (or is it a MiG-19?) and a 1960s F-4 Phantom II ... if only they would produce that as Playmobil too.

edit: when enlarging the photo, I believe the fighter-models are an F-100 Super Sabre and a F-101 Voodoo

[GrahamB]

"Helleu, diz iz jiev-inspector Cloustättereau zpeakin on the pheurne"

 

I thought that was Esperanto, then I realised it was pure Sellers!

[Macruran]

On the third-last photo, I see in the righttop tiny jetfighter models of a 1950s F-86 Sabre (or is it a MiG-19?) and a 1960s F-4 Phantom II ... if only they would produce that as Playmobil too.

edit: when enlarging the photo, I believe the fighter-models are an F-100 Super Sabre and a F-101 Voodoo

The bottom plane is not a Voodoo, it's an F-9 Cougar. Note the large wing area, the widening wing roots, the horizontal stabilizers mounted halfway up the tailfin (compare the tail shadow to that of the other plane), and most crucially the notched sections of the forward wing edges.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_F-9_Cougar




I think you're right on the Super Sabre, but there are a couple of tiny inconsistencies in wing and tail shape. Can't find a closer match though.

[Macruran]

This site confirms Super Sabre and Cougar:

http://www.avkits.net/kit50/toy/geobra/catapult.html

And OMG, geobra did a V2 model in the 50s!

https://www.scalemates.com/kits/317137-geobra-403-v-2-rakete-a-4

[Hadoque]

This site confirms Super Sabre and Cougar:

http://www.avkits.net/kit50/toy/geobra/catapult.html

Great find!!

I hadn´t enlarged the pic as much as you did, so I still wasn´t  100% sure about my guesses.
Glad I got it right about the F-100, otherwise I would have been embarresed!

So the other one is the Grumman F-9F Cougar, the first swept-wing jetfighter for the US Navy/Marines, developped from the straight-winged Panther.
The later USAF McDonnell F-101 Voodoo (see pic) which I thought it was, is larger and the engine nacelles/exhausts are placed differently, but otherwise it´s planform is quite similar to the F-9 Cougar.