A "moldy oldy" Douglas X-3 Stiletto

The old Lindberg kit. Paid about 8 bucks for it and had a ball!

Check it out here:

formatting link

Reply to
Wildcat
Loading thread data ...

NIce! Goes to show ya that a kit needn't cost $100 to be finished well. Jerry 47

Reply to
jerry 47

Nice job - brings back memories - I built one of these when the molds were new - didn't turn out this nice however.

Val Kraut

Reply to
Val Kraut

Congratulations, it looks great!

Bill Banaszak, MFE

Reply to
Mad-Modeller

It flew fine. It's problem, as with many 50s era jets, was that it was severely underpowered.

Reply to
Al Superczynski

It was underpowered (engine technology was at fault rather than the airframe) and suffered from inertial coupling under certain conditions, and also suffered from instability about all three axes at high speed. They also had to be careful about the afterburners, after nearly burning the tail off once. Cute plane, though.

Mark Schynert

Reply to
Mark Schynert

That had a seat that was lowered from the cockpit for pilot entry. No canopy on that one. It had a really odd seat. Does anyone know who manufactured the seat or did Douglas build it's own? The kit seat doesn't cut it.

Ed Robbeloth

Reply to
Ed R

"google" X-3 and you will find lots of neat stuff. There is even a 1 or 2 minute long video clip online.

Reply to
Wildcat

There's one on display at the AF Museum in Dayton OH. The way the pilot goer in and out of ther aircraft was rather unique, rather like an elevator. The entire ejection seat structure was loweded down from the belly where the pilot got in the seat and strapped in. The entire seat assembly was then raised up into the cockpit. I'm not 100% sure but pretty sure that in an ejection, the seat took the same path. only significantly more quickly. ;~)

My home page:

formatting link

" In walks the village idiot and his face is all aglow; he's been up all night listening to Mohammad's radio" W. Zevon

Reply to
Bill Woodier

Rather than "one" at the USAF Museum shouldn't it be "the only one" :) What a remarkable concept that apparently never lived up to it's hype due powerplant issues.

Allen

Reply to
Allen Epps

PolyTech Forum website is not affiliated with any of the manufacturers or service providers discussed here. All logos and trade names are the property of their respective owners.