Napier Heston type 5 racer by Smallworld

Rhino 3D • (none) • posted on Jan 17, 2006

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Description

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

7:42AM | Tue, 17 January 2006

Reminds me a little of the Mustang.

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GregerE

8:38AM | Tue, 17 January 2006

My God, this is beautiful. The control surfaces are very nicely done. v

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steerpike

8:43AM | Tue, 17 January 2006

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.

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Smallworld

9:16AM | Tue, 17 January 2006

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.

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Polax

10:26AM | Tue, 17 January 2006

Beautiful sleek bird and that looks to me like a flawless model.

cujoe_da_man

11:07AM | Tue, 17 January 2006

now you just need a Gee Bee with it in the air, very nice model

wingnut55

3:10PM | Tue, 17 January 2006

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.

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giant551

5:29PM | Tue, 17 January 2006

fantastic brian, the materials and render are fabulous !!

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MattMc_3

8:56PM | Tue, 17 January 2006

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!

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UVDan

9:57PM | Tue, 17 January 2006

Top notch!!!VOTE*

geekiegurl

12:02AM | Wed, 18 January 2006

this rocks!

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tallpindo

5:30AM | Wed, 18 January 2006

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

10:19AM | Fri, 12 March 2010

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

1:12AM | Wed, 21 March 2018

Plane looks excellent EXCEPT lower fin/rudder looks wrong/not same as real plane.