aircommando130 Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 Awesome! Love those old rocket research plane! I like it together with the X-1. Surprised nobody has 3D printed a conversion for the X-1 to the X-1E. I like a lot of others have the cutting edge decal set for it! Cheers...Ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X15 Posted March 29, 2021 Author Share Posted March 29, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, aircommando130 said: Awesome! Love those old rocket research plane! I like it together with the X-1. Surprised nobody has 3D printed a conversion for the X-1 to the X-1E. I like a lot of others have the cutting edge decal set for it! Cheers...Ron Thanks a lot Ron, i love this plane and this aera of speed !! i am looking for the Cutting Edge conversion but it no longer exist... it's great you had the decal set t think it no longer exist too ? i bought a revell X1 to make my own X1E one day Edited March 29, 2021 by X15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aircommando130 Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 I don't think Cutting Edge actually got to the X-1E conversion. Decals are long OOP! Growing up at Edwards I went to school with Robert White's (X-15 pilot) son and daughter and our next door neighbor on dads 2nd tour at Edwards was Jerry Gentry the lifting body pilot. Cheers...Ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Violator1991 Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 Fantastic finish! It's not a model you see everyday and you have absolutely nailed it!! Congratulations for such a lovely model and thanks for sharing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cicciuzzo Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 A perfect paint job. Compliments Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X15 Posted March 30, 2021 Author Share Posted March 30, 2021 13 hours ago, aircommando130 said: I don't think Cutting Edge actually got to the X-1E conversion. Decals are long OOP! Growing up at Edwards I went to school with Robert White's (X-15 pilot) son and daughter and our next door neighbor on dads 2nd tour at Edwards was Jerry Gentry the lifting body pilot. Cheers...Ron Oh my god !!!!! It's incredible to have lived near these people who lived crazy things !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X15 Posted March 30, 2021 Author Share Posted March 30, 2021 9 hours ago, Violator1991 said: Fantastic finish! It's not a model you see everyday and you have absolutely nailed it!! Congratulations for such a lovely model and thanks for sharing it. Thanks a lot !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X15 Posted March 30, 2021 Author Share Posted March 30, 2021 9 hours ago, Cicciuzzo said: A perfect paint job. Compliments Thank you very much, really happy you enjoyed it !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Ray Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 On 3/29/2021 at 10:52 AM, aircommando130 said: I don't think Cutting Edge actually got to the X-1E conversion. Decals are long OOP! Growing up at Edwards I went to school with Robert White's (X-15 pilot) son and daughter and our next door neighbor on dads 2nd tour at Edwards was Jerry Gentry the lifting body pilot. Cheers...Ron Cutting Edge DID make the X-1E conversion; I had one! Sold it to somebody...They did not finish the separate X-1E cockpit, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Ray Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 Love the Skystreak! May I post it on the website? Great orange finish! mattcour 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greif8 Posted April 1, 2021 Share Posted April 1, 2021 Fabulous finish, and the speed brakes look very cool! Ernest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattcour Posted April 1, 2021 Share Posted April 1, 2021 Orange or red, I'm not sure, but it really is a great model Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattcour Posted April 1, 2021 Share Posted April 1, 2021 I had read somewhere that the red colour was soon changed to white, to ensure better tracking of the ground cameras recording the flight. If somebody asked me which colour would be more detectable in the air, red or white, I would definitely say "red". And definitely that must be what the Douglas engineers thought, too. Interesting that white makes a better contrast than red in the sky... Anyway, it is a good thing that they have chosen red first. We now have a very spectacular red early jet in aviation history books IvanVasili 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IvanVasili Posted April 1, 2021 Share Posted April 1, 2021 What a beauty you have built! I have one of this kit and this is a good inspiration to help me start building it. Thank for sharing this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R Palimaka Posted April 3, 2021 Share Posted April 3, 2021 (edited) What a gorgeous build of a unique aircraft. And it was interesting to see the approach Jetmads took to producing a kit, and how you built it. Outstanding work!! Richard Edited April 3, 2021 by R Palimaka Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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