HL-10 as seen in the 1974 TV Series ‘The Sim Million Dollar Man’ produced by Harve Bennet Starring Lee Majors

If you were watching TV in the 1970s you would have seen at least one episode of The Six Million Dollar man - a phenomenally successful TV show. The title sequence is iconic, as are the ‘bionic’ sound effects and slow motion ‘bionic’ action.

Several model kits of Steve Austin in action were made by Fundimensions as simple snap-together kits. But it would have been great if there had been a kit of the HL-10 lifting body, the aiircraft that Steve Austin was flying on a test flight when it crashed and his injuries lead to his bionic recovery. The footage seen in the opening titles shows an M2-F2, but in the season 2  episode ‘the deadly replay’ they refer to it as the HL10

I always associate Revell with the US Space program, especially their kits from the 1960s and 70s and have imagined this as a Revell kit that may have been made in the mid 1960s and updated with a ‘Six Million Dollar Man’ banner as a re-release.

This is a very small aircraft 21feet in length and I imagine a 1/28th scale kit would be 9” in length.

Watch the video ‘What If… Fantasy Model Kits ‘#14’:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4I93Uc1mHw&t=628s