1/72 F3H-1N Demon Kitbash of Emhar F3H-2N Kit

[TheRealMrEd]

Thanks Andwil,

 

Sorry for the late reply, but the Spring and gardening preparations lured me away for a while!

 

The Phantom is close t the same size as the Demon, but the Phantom fuse is wider and the plane sets lower.  The Demon sits way high, and the fuselage is really fat!

 

Ed

[TheRealMrEd]

Oops!  Forgot to post the photo!

 

Ed

[Killingholme]

Wow, it's huge! And without being rude, it's a bit chubby too! Shows how quickly understanding of aerodynamics was developing back then.

[Tailspin Turtle]

The Grumman F10F Jaguar was to be the first of the Navy’s big General Purpose jet fighters.  Because development of its variable-sweep wing was presumed to be risky, the F7U-1 Cutlass and XF3H-1 Demon were repurposed to be General Purpose fighters as the F7U-3 and F3H-1 respectively. The main external change to the XF3H-1 (originally intended to be a backup as an interceptor to the F4D Skyray) was a deeper fuselage. As Ed noted, it sat taller than the F4H. In fact, an F3H Demon driver was only about 20 inches shy of looking an A3D Skywarrior crew in the eye. The F4H began as an unsolicited proposal for a single-seat derivative of the F3H. It was actually slightly shorter than the F3H because of the difficulty of maneuvering the Demon onto a non-deck-edge elevator (see: https://thanlont.blogspot.com/2009/06/missed-it-by-that-much-iii.html) but had more wing area because of an increase in chord in order to accommodate a higher gross weight.