Napier Heston type 5 racer by Smallworld
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This is a Napier Heston type 5 special, built specifically to take the world absolute speed record. Design was started in 1938 and the first flight was in June 1940, which unfortunatly resulted in a crash and the abandonment of the project. There is not a lot of info out there on this aircraft, but I think this is fairly close.
Thanks for looking!
Comments (14)
gwhite2
Reminds me a little of the Mustang.
GregerE
My God, this is beautiful. The control surfaces are very nicely done. v
steerpike
Superb modelling and detail, very accurate. They want to build a real one at http://project-napier-heston.com/, if you haven't seen the site yet.
Smallworld
Thanks Gregor and Steerpike. That site is the one where I got most of my info from! Well worth a look, and I hope they succeed.
Polax
Beautiful sleek bird and that looks to me like a flawless model.
cujoe_da_man
now you just need a Gee Bee with it in the air, very nice model
wingnut55
what a beautiful plane, i don't think i ever heard of it before now. wonderful models like this really bring little-known machines to life in a way which the old drawings and photos do not.
giant551
fantastic brian, the materials and render are fabulous !!
MattMc_3
That plane really does have some clean lines. I like it even more every time I look at it. The engine cowling looks especially good!
UVDan
Top notch!!!VOTE*
geekiegurl
this rocks!
tallpindo
It takes a real expert to make something which seems unquestionable but fails. Schwartz-Christofal and Kutta-Joukowski just don't seem adaquate to create the complex layer at a time like this. You could try to find an inverse and decide which planet it looks most like as a sphere brought back? Trying to explain how the phase shift on the propellor passages interacts to shorten the tail arm requirement alone is needless bother. Organic? perhaps...
aceart
Please contact me as soon as possible about t he possible use of this work in the next issue of Aviation History Magazine. I'm at guy.aceto(at)weiderhistorygroup.com Very interested in talking to you about this. Thanks
GeeBeeZ1931
Plane looks excellent EXCEPT lower fin/rudder looks wrong/not same as real plane.