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Douglas X-3 Stiletto X

Actually Pam, it is much more complicated.

Note the rounded triangular nose section, then at the cockpit, a flattened sided triangular shape, followed by the bulging fuselage with the engines added completely reshaping the fuselage, then the tail section becomes somewhat of an inverted, though rounded triangular shape.

This makes for a modeler's nightmare without some cross section help. :)
 

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warchild said:
My Gods where did you find that?? I used to spend weeks trying to find stuff like that. Inncredible..
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Searching is all 'GIGO' ....Garbage In Garbage Out.

It's what you put in as the 'search' that's most important...;)

A salient Motto....
"Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it." ...;)
 
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Okay, we want to look for Jay Miller's book 'X-planes'. That's got a set of sections drawings for the X-3 that the R/C guys have been using. Probably out of print. I'm trying to see if any of the phuds I know have one, and want to do some scans. Nothing yet, but that narrows the search a bit.
 
lazarus said:
Okay, we want to look for Jay Miller's book 'X-planes'. That's got a set of sections drawings for the X-3 that the R/C guys have been using. Probably out of print. I'm trying to see if any of the phuds I know have one, and want to do some scans. Nothing yet, but that narrows the search a bit.
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Nope. Not out of print, just on its third edition and pricey is an understatement..
https://www.amazon.com/X-Planes-X-1-X-45-3rd/dp/1857801091
 
Library and photocopier, then. I also saw it on google book preview, so I need to go find that again; hopefully they haven't 'blacked out' the page with the drawing.
 
warchild said:
we owe you one.. good luck..
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Lazarus, if you can't afford buying, I will do it for you. Just tell me what you want, I'll pay that $ 51,-- or $ 55,-- for you and maybe they can send it directly to your home.

Regards, hertzie.
 
I have The X-Planes: X-1 to X-31, New Revised Edition by Jay Miller published in 1988 and there aren't any section drawings of the X-3. There is one relatively small three view drawing by Chuck Davis displaying top, port side and front views along with fourteen photos. The X-3 chapter is six pages long with the first page only containing the three view drawing and four photos. The remaining five pages contain both text and photos.

The X-Planes: X-1 to X-45, Third Edition published later may have the desired section drawings, but I would not necessarily assume so unless you have definitive information indicating that it does.
 
Milton Shupe said:
Actually Pam, it is much more complicated.

Note the rounded triangular nose section, then at the cockpit, a flattened sided triangular shape, followed by the bulging fuselage with the engines added completely reshaping the fuselage, then the tail section becomes somewhat of an inverted, though rounded triangular shape.

This makes for a modeler's nightmare without some cross section help. :)
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The first two photos are actually excellent modeling resources. Almost dead-on in the first one and the highlights and reflections on the second one help with getting the curves right.
Sectionals would make for speedier modeling, yes. But this doesn't look that nightmarish at all. Especially if you can dig out more of these photos.
 
Bjoern said:
The first two photos are actually excellent modeling resources. Almost dead-on in the first one and the highlights and reflections on the second one help with getting the curves right.
Sectionals would make for speedier modeling, yes. But this doesn't look that nightmarish at all. Especially if you can dig out more of these photos.
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Bjoern,

It's not nightmarish to model, but to get it right would require cross sections.

The issue is not the front; it's the mid-section to end of afterburners.
 
Here's a few helpful tidbits ...
 

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Milton Shupe said:
Pam,

Some "light" reading :)

X-3 Research Papers

Stability and Control Characteristics
https://www.ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19930088730&qs=N=17+4293939922

Flight Testing
http://ethw.org/First-Hand:Research...ntal_Research_Airplanes_and_the_Sound_Barrier

Vertical tail Loads at Transonic Speeds
http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/112360.pdf
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Your timing is perfect sir. Woke up unable to catch my breath this morning, and I still can barely breath so a bit of reading is perfect for today.. Thank you..
 
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