This study was one of four submitted by Douglas Santa Monica to the US
Navy Bureau of Aeronautics in 1948 to fulfill the requirements of
Outline Specification 115, which called for a carrier borne attack
aircraft capable of extreme performance. The vehicle had to carry a
10,000 bomb load; could not weight more than 100,000 lbs; had to fly at a
40,000 ft altitude; had to cruise out at not less than Mach 1.2; and
achieve a 1,700 nm combat radius. These were extremely ambitious
requirements, given the state of the art in 1948. BuAer envisioned the
aircraft as a composite type capable of jettisoning, during the course
of its flight, such parts of the vehicle that were not required for
completion of its mission. This remarkable aircraft would have operated
from The USS United States, an immense 65,000-ton supercarrier
that would have been the core of the Navy’s nascent strategic nuclear
bombardment capability had it not been cancelled in 1949 due to
budgetary and political issues. The Douglas Model 1186-C featured an
escape vehicle not unlike the X-3 Stiletto mounted on top of a huge
expendable missile component. This particular design was humorously
referred to as the “Flash Gordon Special” on an early blueprint of the
configuration, as it certainly looked like a product of Alex Raymond’s
fertile imagination. To read more about the Douglas Model 1186-C and the
many other remarkable competing aircraft designs, please consult my
book, Secret Aerospace Projects of the U.S. Navy: The Incredible Attack Aircraft of the USS United States, 1948-1949
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the aircarft based on the book cover, by Jared A. Zichek first saw on www.papermodelers.com, posted by. billy.leliveld had some difficult part to find the 3view out there, but thanks a ton to oom Billy for send me the copy of the book..well this one special for you :beer
testbuild
main body assembly
add inner frame (2-3mm hardpaper)
pod assembly
host wing and rudder
inner frame fo host wings assembly
Is this available for download? I can't find the link
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Amazing job! Thanks so much. I'll try this one definitely next year.
ReplyDeleteomg that's sick, you're awesome with 3d designing, you're better with crafting!
ReplyDeleteHi Tekzo! I am working on this one now, it's a great model! It has a good fit, almost perfect. The wings are a little too pointy at the curve of the leading edge where it meets the fuselage, when they are rounder they'll fit better to the fuselage. I also did not use the glue tabs around the "tower structure" but just glued the tower to the body with some glue on the insides of the lower part of the tower.
ReplyDeleteI also am using metallic paper here and there. I'll publish the results soon on my own blog. Thanks for sharing this model!
Hi Tekzo! Great model you did, I have built it now. Here it is on my website. Thanks for sharing this. I loved the build. It was very straight forward. There are some little things I did to it, like a recolouring and a new nationality. The grey colour of the X-3's belly is not entirely correct, the cockpit parts start of way too narrow compared with the nose cone.
ReplyDeleteI personally think the X-3 still had two engines but I do like the big single exhaust pipe a lot. And the tower of the missile had air intakes on the front but that might have been hard to design in this model.
Again, thanks for the model and take a look at my site to see what I have made of it.
Greetings,
Paper Kosmonaut
@Paper Kosmonaut
ReplyDeletethanks for your wonderfull model..and all those fantastic works
cheers up
HI Tekzo. Just purchased this from your site. Hopefully you're still open for business?
ReplyDeletestill running like a cat, thank you for the purchased .already sent the file
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