Comments: This model
plane was given away free in a packet of "Kellogg's PEP"
whole-wheat flake cereal around 1942. The paper sleeve contained a
small sheet of printed balsa wood, from which you cut out the pieces with a sharp knife and then assembled them to build the model. There
were twenty different models to collect, fourteen U.S., four British
and two Russian.
The "1-16 B", according to the packet, had a speed of over
300 mph, a 1000 hp Wright Cyclone M-63 engine and 4 machine guns or
2 cannons in the wings and 2 machine guns in the fuselage.
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