Tag: wing design

• 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

• Curtiss Shrike – Part Two – Folding Wing Or Not?

  

  Not. The USAAF was not concerned about squashing a dive bomber onto a deck-edge lift to strike it down to a hangar deck. They could specify a fixed wing and get a stronger one that would hold more bombs. The Dragon model company makes this kit serve several purposes – US Navy SB2C as well…

  Dick Stein

  July 16, 2021

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, design, Model Airplane, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  Curtiss, USAAF, wing design

• MiG 17 – Part Three – Dam Those Wings

  

  I have always thought that wing dams were an admission of error on the part of an aircraft designer. Yet they feature on any number of Eastern and Western jets – mostly the ones that have swept wings. You may know them as stall fences or barriers. They keep the air moving back past the…

  Dick Stein

  July 6, 2021

  1:72 scale, design, Model Airplane, Russian models, Soviet aircraft, subassembly

  MiG, wing design, Zvezda