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Kit: Lindberg
Size: 1/48 scale, 16 3/8 inches



    No doubt about it, Douglas Aircraft's sleek X-3, nicknamed Stiletto certainly looked like it should have been one of the fastest of all the X-Planes. Problems with the delivery of the proper engines, however caused it to be badly underpowered and the X-3 never achieved its goal of testing an airframe at a sustained speed of Mach 2. Technically though, it was a successful aircraft, being the first to test titanium as a construction material and it also helped aircraft engineers learn how to cope with inertia coupling, a hazardous phenomenon that could cause a pilot to lose control of an aircraft while maneuvering at very high speed.

   This is Lindberg's 1/48 scale model kit. It is currently a work in progress and is close to being finished.


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