Tag: Jetstream

• Handley Page Jetstream – Part Three – Big Body And Tiny Wings

  

  I was always puzzled by two aircraft; the Douglas X-3 Stiletto and the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter. They were fabulous looking and built for speed, but the tiny size of the wings always suggested that they just couldn’t lift themselves. There were troubles galore when they overloaded the F-104 but otherwise they seemed to work. But…

  Dick Stein

  January 19, 2022

  1:72 scale, airliner, British aircraft, Civil aircraft, design, Model Airplane, research, Uncategorized

  Handley Page, Jetstream, wing design, wings