Quality of Comet CL planes

If you are referring to the Comet ready-to-fly CL planes, there are those here who certainly know more than I do, and some even have these as collector items.

They were short lived, both Wen-Mac later Testors and Cox basically had the market locked in. Duke Fox lost money, had many engines unsold when they cut his order for their planes and Comet discontinued production of the planes. Occasionally his engines show up on the 'Bay with the Comet words and symbol ground off the crankcase. This is how he sold those "excess" engines.

I think also Herkimer lost money too on their OK Cub .06 engines.

Ok thanks. I saw a Comet Mustang for sale a few weeks ago. Of course I couldn’t hold it in my hand a do a good visual inspection but the pictures seemed to show a interesting quality airplane I’m not a big Mustang fan or I would have bought it

I'm not familiar with them, but I do know they were offered in both 24" and 12" versions. Out of curiosity, I bought a 12" kit. Die cut parts offer a challange and I see nothing out of the ordinary as to quality. But, as a casual observor I would prefer one of the other manufacturers.

There is a person who does shot kits of old Comet kits, aerowerkes models. I have never bought one, but I have considered ordering one of the Sterling beginners kits. Or maybe one of the Scientific kits.

bsadonkill wrote:There is a person who does shot kits of old Comet kits, aerowerkes models. I have never bought one, but I have considered ordering one of the Sterling beginners kits. Or maybe one of the Scientific kits.

I have several of his kits , He does nice work