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SWISSAIR DC-8 AIRCRAFT HB-IDA
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SWISSAIR DC-8 AIRCRAFT HB-IDA
See original version (French)
Estimate €1,400 - €1,600
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Description
SWISSAIR DC-8 AIRCRAFT HB-IDA
"Raise up" metal agency model, 1:50 scale. Original stand.
Desktop model for travel agency display: Topping Space Models, Mecater, Westway Model, Cutaway, MEE, Fermo, Osgaard, Walkers, Verkuyl, Minavia, Fournereau, Reducta.
Manufactured by “Raise up”, Rotterdam, Holland.
Total weight approx. 9 kg, divisible into 4 parts.
Dimensions: 92 x 88 cm
Minor knocks, good condition for its age.
Raise-Up Metalworks, based on Heiligerleelaan in Rotterdam, manufactured aircraft models for major airlines to promote their travel agencies.
Their global sales agents were The N. Defilippes Company, Plane Model division, in New York.
Raise Up specialised in all-metal commercial aeroplane models, manufactured to various scales. Their clients included KLM, for whom they produced models of their Lockheed Electra, Super Constellation, DC-8 and Vickers Viscount aircraft; Lufthansa (Boeing 707, DC-8); Swissair (Convair 990, DC-8); Ethiopian Airlines (Boeing 707) and many others.
The last model was produced around 1964. In 1967 or 1968, the company was taken over by Matthys Verkuyl, and some of Raise Up’s staff left Rotterdam to move to Verkuyl’s workshop in Badhoevedorp.
The famous DC-8 was officially announced in July 1955.
The maiden flight took place in late 1957 and the aircraft entered service in 1959.
The Douglas DC-8-32 was delivered to Swiss Air in early 1961. They purchased three of these aircraft.
The 32 series was the intercontinental, extended-range version of the original DC-8s (series -10, -20 and 30) fitted with Pratt & Whitney turbojet engines.
The 32 had increased fuel capacity, as well as a reinforced fuselage and undercarriage.
Around 57 of these aircraft were built.
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