Skybirds – Competition

The Material of the Future?

While Skybirds were building a superior and successful range of model aircraft kits, a quiet revolution was taking place – the advent of plastic. It is thus often assumed that the writing was on the wall for Skybirds from the earliest days, but was it? To examine the question, we need to consider the challenge posed by FROG, a near-contemporary challenger to the Skybirds crown.