The Comet Model News

Flying was all the rage in 1929, two years after Charles Lindbergh soloed across the Atlantic, and when Bill Bibichkow and Sam Goldenberg, high school students from a Chicago slum, opened the Comet Model Airplane & Supply Co. Initial capital: $5. See how the boys turned a few sticks of balsa wood, music wire, tissue and glue into a million dollar business, much to the delight of model builders across America.