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Northrop X-4 Bantam 1/72


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By no means the best model I've ever built and a fairly ropey vintage short-run injection moulded kit from a long defunct (1989) company called 12 Squared, this is the Northrop X-4 tail less research aircraft from the late 1940s, early 1950s.

Two X-4s were built to research into the problems of stability etc in respect of tail less designs - much like the British de Havilland DH108 Swallow. Unlike the Swallow, the X-4 turned out to be a fairly benign machine and both aircraft survived their test programme and both are now preserved in the US.

 

 

 

 

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Not quite a silk purse from a sow's ear but a decent result but why did you start from there? Was it lurking in the back of the stash and here was an incentive to get rid of it or did someone give it to you and say 'Eric, could you?'

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