Finished 5th August 2013

 

 100 Pieces

Space Shuttle

A J.W. Spear's Games handcut "Victory"-Plywood Jigsaw Puzzle that dates back to 1983.

J.W Spears, a famous german company for high quality board games, was founded 1879 and bought J. Hayter in 1970. They produced the wooden Jigsaw Puzzles until 1988. In 1994 Mattel bought Spears and the production in Great Britain was closed while the tradename SPEARS was continued.

"Enterprise, the first Space Shuttle Orbiter, is the centerpiece of the new McDonnell Space Hangar at the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. The orbiter's been at the museum since it opened (...) Enterprise never flew in space, but it was crucial to the Space Shuttle program. Its series of approach and landing tests in 1977 proved the orbiter could fly in the atmosphere and land like an airplane, except without power -- like a glider." (source)