These two pages of advertisements
form Sterling Models are from page 62 of the December 1954 issue of Air Trails Hobbies
for Young Men magazine. Sterling Models is no longer in operation, unfortunately.
All copyrights (if any) are hereby acknowledged.
Use the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics'
inflation calculator
to see what items cost in today's dollars. For instance, that $5.95
Chance-Vaught Corsair F4U-1 control line model
would be $50.94 in 2013 money - a 10x increase in inflation! I paid about $60 for the
kit on eBay a couple years ago, so it definitely has collector value that outpaces inflation.
 

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Kirt Blattenberger
Carpe Diem! (Seize the Day!)
Even during the busiest times of my life I have endeavored to maintain some form
of model building activity. This site has been created to help me chronicle my journey
through a lifelong involvement in model aviation, which
all began in Mayo, MD
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