classic TV commercials- part 8- toy simpit!!

[beaky]

Wow!! This is one I never saw back then, nor do I recall the TV commercial. It's kind of silly, but kind of nifty at the same time... the Jimmy Jet TV Jet!! At you local grocer's only!! LOL!

     

It's like a little simpit! And it has everything...moving controls, lots of dummy gauges... and missiles on top!

     

Needless to say, there was no CRT inside... my guess is that a motor scrolled a roll of acetate with the ground graphics on it, and the plane is just a cutout on a wire. Backlight it, and voila!

The yoke makes the plane go back and forth...

     


And the throttle controls the speed at which the ground goes by.


     

Or is this the throttle? Hmmm...

     


Look how much fun this brat is having... I think his head is about to explode.

It would be cool to find one of these and set it up to run a proper flight sim, with a little LCD display, etc...





Next part 9: U-control model planes!

[machineman9]

Reminds me of a driving simulator my dad used when he was young... basically a recording of a race track played on projector and you had to drive like it happened on the screen. Hehe. Technology doesn't half advance!

[Apex]

Wouldja look at that!  Had M&D (Mom & Dad) seen that, they probably would have given it to me for Xmas, they knew I was into planes & related stuff.  Too bad they missed it.  Cool!  

[Willit Run]

I had something like that!!!

[Alejandro Rhodes]

How old were this?

[beaky]

How old were this?

This is probably from around 1960.