I can still remember getting one of these for Christmas in 1960 I was entertained for at least 2 years.

Back in 1960’s I had a JIMMY JET toy. Reason I joined the USAF and worked on the F-22 Raptor. 🇺🇸

Very bird and U-Fly it were my favourite toys from the early 1970s

A later iteration was 'Flight Deck', by Airfix , where a Navy Phantom had to be landed on an aircraft carrier deck. A successful landing resulted in the aircraft's arrester hook catching on a wire, pulling up a pair of flags, either side of the deck.

What a rare find. The kid acting here went on to become a world famous United States naval aviator, as a fighter pilot He rose to the rank of lieutenant and his military flying nickname was "Maverick". This is such a fantastic tribute to Lt. Pete Mitchell.

This is probably a toy i would have been into. Not on my radar screen back in the day.

Awesome!

Aaaggh!! I've been trying to find something like this for ages! I had one of these with an F-15 or something like that in the mid 70's, but never could remember the name of the toy or the company that made it. Just did a search for it and found that it was an F4 Phantom, not an F-15. Stupid thing was my favorite toy from my grandparents as a kid. Really wish I still had it. =)

That must have been a gift for rich kids. That would be $217 in 2024 dollars.

totally rad!

The M-65 Was NOT an 'Atomic' Cannon, It was A Standard 280mm Howitzer that Fired Nuclear Shells

All You Need Now is an actual Jet.

The 1970's was the peak era for these types of toys. This one is unique in that is doesn't require batteries. It was a good time to be in the battery business, I had a Marx Shooting Gallery that required four D batteries.

I can see how this would be a cool toy from a nostalgia perspective but otherwise it being from the late 1950's it seems fairly primitive. The peak era for battery operated toys of this kind was the 1970's.

I certainly remember this commercial. Super toy.

Dang this is like Better than DCs or whatever overrated Sim even today is Equivalent to back then

A fast food drive thru in that dish would be a challenge

Wow, “set to use rockets”, not even “missiles”!

Bring that toy back! I'll buy it and play with it….

Ah those were the days. I remember what my dad used to say : STOP SHOOTING THOSE SUCKER DARTS AT THE DRYWALL !

There’s no way in hell I would have got one of those for Christmas. The helmet itself was way too expensive…and almost 20 bucks for the thing itself?!? My mum would have said, “What? Do you think we’re made of money?”😂

Both attractive female leads, Kari Michaelsen and Victoria Paige Meyerink went on to have successful careers in the industry, the boys not so much. I like the implied innocence of 1970s youth , where having a car was justification enough to pickup girls successfully. The car is a 1968 Plymouth Satellite which shares the same silhouette as a road runner or GTX. If the caption is accurate, the sole survivor of the crash this PSA is based on, Vicky survived the crash, she is the one in the front seat attempting to turn off the ignition by grabbing the keys.

I need this

😂 l had one with a F4 phantom jet...

​​It is indeed always very important to note all the relevant facts of course. Kharzeestan Krappenz DiktorBummer Jurkzxoffenz etc and co - they should all note good with much awe & extreme wonder. *UPDATE MORE BREAKING NEWS ETC* How things were back then - *_Accident losses - % of aircraft built._* DeHavilland Comet 4 UK 14% DeHavilland Comet all mks 17% Vickers VC10 UK 5% *_The DH Comet had better safety than or similar safety to many other commercial passenger aircraft of a similar era_* Douglas DC-1 99% Douglas DC-2 47% Douglas DC-3 30% Douglas DC-4 26% Boeing s300 72% Boeing 307 70% Boeing 247 48% Boeing 707 20% Lockheed L-049/149 Constellation 30% Lockheed Electra Turboprop 29% Fairchild FH-227 30% McDonnell Douglas DC-8 14% Sud Aviation Caravelle 15% Canadair CL-44 Turboprop 46% Convair CV-580 Turboprop 22% The Comet was designed with military use in mind, Nimrod work started at De Havilland in 1953. The committee did not find hundreds of fatal flaws or evidence of design defects, structural defects, defective materials or shoddy workmanship. Ripstop provision was included. Claimed incidents did not involve cracks starting from window corners. The engine & engine intake position had advantages, were not flaws or fatal flaws & were not the cause of any incidents involving any Comet or Nimrod aircraft. Nearly all changes before the Comet 4 were just in case or were previously scheduled improvements. Bow-wing & the 707 story (see b-47 wing folding incidents) is the result of global economics & the well protected & very large domestic US airliner market & active support from the UK with for instance proposed competing airliners from Vickers & DH being blocked by the UK government at the time, cheap & nasty was the requirement with large scale production capability in one place. The 707 was of course a much larger aircraft which as a stressed skin metal airframe aircraft would require a thicker skin anyway. They got lucky at the time essentially. Bow-wing is the result of the large & well protected US domestic airliner market The fate of De Havilland was due to Govt policy Aerospace sector rationalisation & global economics, it was nothing to do with the Comet. A comprehensive, thorough & protracted testing program was carried out on the prototype & it's assemblies. Of course the Comet did indeed have Ripstop stop provision. De Havilland (Of England) Comets were not grounded after 1970 due to structural problems. *_It's interesting that some of the aircraft on the list should really have been noticeably safer than the Comet due to being a similar type but of much later design & manufacture but they definately were not safer._* How things were back then - *_Accident losses - % of aircraft built._* DeHavilland Comet 4 UK 14% DeHavilland Comet all mks 17% Vickers VC10 UK 5% *_The DH Comet had better safety than or similar safety to many other commercial passenger aircraft of a similar era_* Douglas DC-1 99% Douglas DC-2 47% Douglas DC-3 30% Douglas DC-4 26% Boeing s300 72% Boeing 307 70% Boeing 247 48% Boeing 707 20% Lockheed L-049/149 Constellation 30% Lockheed Electra Turboprop 29% Fairchild FH-227 30% McDonnell Douglas DC-8 14% Sud Aviation Caravelle 15% Canadair CL-44 Turboprop 46% Convair CV-580 Turboprop 22% A comparison of more recent aircraft. Accident losses comparison examples. 1970s - 1980s % of total Aircraft built Similar aircraft type, date / decade, useage, size. Biz Jets BAe-125-800 1.7 % Beechcraft Beechjet 400 2.2 % Cessna 550 Citation II 7.1 % Learjet 35 / 36 12 % Beechcraft 1900 6% Dassault Falcon 10 11.5% Aérospatiale SN.601 22.5% Medium size jets / Turboprops. BAe-146 5.1% Fokker 100 6% McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30 9.5% Fairchild FH-227 30% McDonnell Douglas DC-8 14% Canadair CL-44 Turboprop 46% Convair CV-580 Turboprop 22% Beechcraft, Fokker, McDonnell Douglass, Learjet, Fairchild, Aerospatiale, Canadair, Convair companies defunct. All Comets, including some Comet 1s, had full civilian use certification at some point after 1954, civilian use certification only being withdrawn after commercial flying stopped. Examples were flying until 1997 - one example did a signals research global circumnavigation flight series in 1993 via Australia virtually without a rest travelling 28000 miles, only had an ice warning indicator issue during the flights. *The DH Comet - World Firsts.* 1st gas turbine jet powered airliner. 1st high altitude 8psi pressurised full fuselage length passenger cabin airliner, not a trivial feature as structure strength required for pressurisation considerably exceeded strength required for normal flying stress. Nobody else had done anything similar before the Comet. The b-47 used 2 relatively small, heavily built pressurised modules (the aircraft where 6 had their wings fold up in 2 months while flying & some had their wings fall off while parked). The 1937 Boeing piston engined airliner pressurised passenger cabin was pressurised to 2 psi only - in fact that could easily be done as the normal unpressurized fuselage cabin structure strength for flying stresses only was all that was needed to be adequate so no significant weight increase issues needed addressing. 1st all hydraulically powered flying surface controls & actuators airliner with under carriage wheel disk brakes + ABS. 1st jet airliner to cross the Atlantic. 1st jet aircraft to do a world circumnavigation flights series. *Of course De Havilland had prior experience building many all metal construction airframe aircraft including thousands of jet powered fighter aircraft that were primarily of metal construction with pressurised cockpits & jet engines built by De-Havilland & we know the world's first all metal construction airframe airliner was built in England in the 1920s by Handley Page.* *_De Havilland did indeed always work to better than industry standards at the time, used up to date knowledge for the design & no evidence of negligence or criminal negligence was ever produced in relation to the DH Comet._* The course of De Havilland & the general UK aerospace industry sector was not affected even slightly by the DH Comet. The course of national aerospace sectors obviously being similar & inevitable in many countries. *_Other interesting World firsts_* _World's first turboprop aircraft._ *Vickers Viscount Turboprop Airliner 1947.* *A 1945 Gloster Meteor Aircraft with Turboprop Gas Turbine Engine.* They might like to answer these questions. *Which airline has just ordered* *60 RR England Trent XWB Engines* *& What aircraft are the engines for?* _Bonus question for 10 points._ Which country has the *World's Highest Combined Per Capita* *Nuclear + Defence + Aerospace Sector Activity?* 👍 & 🙂 & of course 😎 indeed. *C H E E R S* & without doubt - _Toodle_ -PIP- *Old* *_C H A Ps._* This line left not blank intentionally. The next line is blank intentionally. . .... . ... ... ..... .... ...... . . ... .. ... . ... ....... Ivcxivcxivcxcvvczc cxcxcvccbcxcxcxcv

We feel we can shed some light on some common myths & misunderstandings. ​That's correct of course, at the time the Comet wasn't particularly dangerous. It was also definitely not the worst aircraft engineering disaster in aviation history obviously. Losses comparisons. How things were in those days. DeHavilland Comet 4 UK 14% DeHavilland Comet all mks 17% Boeing 307 70% Boeing 247 48% Boeing 707 . 20% Boeing 707 20% Lockheed Electra Turboprop 29% Canadair CL-44 Turboprop 46% Convair CV-580 Turboprop 22% Convair CV-880 (ff 1959) 27% Convair CV-990 (ff 1961) 35% Of course De Havilland had prior experience building many all metal construction airframe aircraft & thousands of jet powered fighter aircraft that were primarily of metal construction with pressurised cockpits & jet engines built by De-Havilland. Yes, that's true, De Havilland carried out full stress analysis & engaged in a comprehensive & protracted testing program which is why key De Havilland people were happy to be aboard flying DH Comet aircraft. The Comet was the first airliner where stress due to pressurisation significantly exceeded flying load stress for a full length passenger cabin fuselage. We agree, that's correct, the DH Comet was the first passenger airliner with full length fuselage pressurisation at 8psi pressure differential. Handley Page built the world's first all metal construction airliner during the 1920s. In all cases other earlier pressurised aircraft were larger, needed thicker fuselage skins due to flying stresses alone & had much lower pressurisation differential pressure or were military aircraft with relatively small heavily built pressurised capsules. Of course ripstop provision was provided. The skin alloy used became unavailable at the time due to R & D at the manufacturers which resulted in the original alloy being discontinued. Later alloys had very similar properties. The skin thickness used for the Comet was used for similar size later aircraft. Frame spacing was not found to be too large & frame width was not found to be too small. Without doubt De Havilland did indeed always work to better than industry standards at the time, used up to date knowledge for the design & construction & no evidence of negligence or criminal negligence was ever produced in relation to the DH Comet. Obviously the DH Comet had no effect on the course of the aerospace industry in the UK. The UK now has the world's highest combined nuclear, aerospace & defence sectors per capita activity. That's correct, the investigation committee did not find hundreds of fatal flaws or evidence of design defects, structural defects, defective materials or shoddy workmanship. Indeed it is the case that ripstop provision was included. Claimed incidents did not involve cracks starting from passenger cabin window corners. Pretty much all changes were just in case changes or were planned development modifications & improvements that were scheduled regardless of incidents. Obviously De Havilland designers knew all there was to know about metal fatigue at the time they designed the DH Comet. It is in fact true to say that the way airliners were built changed everywhere, including in the US, after the Comet incidents. We hope this helps, obviously. Cheers indeed of course as always etc. 👍 . . .... ... .... ...... .. . ..... ..... .......

Sad today that kids spend all their play time behind a computer screen.

There was a carrier landing version of this I had….

That particular bac one eleven in first video clip is flight 158 registration PI - C1131 of Philippine Airlines that crashed in 1969

I had it as a kid. Went on to get my coveted Wings of Gold in 1982.

Back when kids could really be kids!

This and the Vertibird were my jam. Literally HOURS spent perfecting my handling of toy aircraft.

In today's USD; $20 in 1959 = $216.83 today!!! Wow! and the Helmet at a comparatively bargain price of $2.98 = $32.31 today.

I had this . Im 58 now.

We were to poor to have such toys😂

<JK> Takeoff at the end of the video -- was the Convair 990 a retractable gear jet? </JK>

$20

The advert suggests it's a complete cockpit when in reality it's just a dashboard.

My father-in-law commanded the real thing in Germany, 529th Field Artillery Battalion

This brings back memories. I got one of these for Christmas in the early 1970s and it remained a favourite toy for several years.

Does that seem pricey for that time period or is it me?

Just made my day!! Pops was a USAF jet jockey and now my brother and i could fly along with him!! Hours of fun with that! Lost count of how many killz we racked up but I know the enemy Air Force was scared to death of us!!!!

I remember Steve Canyon on TV. Served in the US Air Force, 1968 to 1974. 😊

Wow. I had a Steve Canyon helmet.

Looks suspiciously like the Airfix flight deck aircraft carrier game I pestered my parents for Christmas as a kid , then novelty had worn off by boxing day 🤔 😂

That's a picture of old G model b52s

❤

Hands on toys back then. Your imagination was the controls; no computers to do it for you. Loads of fun!!!

Just found a combo set and the price is .. hang on $5,195.00. Yes boys and girls you read that right. Long way from $22.00