de Havilland DH.108 Swallow

A procedural model built in Blender from the type’s published dimensions, painted as VW120, the third de Havilland DH.108, in 1948, when John Derry flew it to a 100 km closed-circuit speed record in April and past the speed of sound in a dive that September: a small tailless research jet with a Vampire-derived fuselage nacelle lengthened to a pointed nose, a low metal canopy with a flat-panelled windscreen and small oval side windows, wings swept at 45 degrees with leading-edge slats, elevons and small fins under the tips, wing-root intakes for its de Havilland Goblin 4 turbojet, a single swept fin and rudder and a tricycle undercarriage: high-speed silver overall, roundels above and below the wings, a red and blue fin flash, black ‘VW120’ on the rear fuselage and under the wings, and the yellow prototype ‘P’ in a ring ahead of the jet pipe, as photographed in 1948 (none of the three DH.108s survives; the shape was taken from published three-views of VW120 scaled to the published span and length, and checked against photographs; the race number it carried at the 1948 SBAC show is left off). Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom · all 295 models · download .glb (760 KB) · Plate 165 in The Hangar