de Havilland DH.88 Comet

A procedural model built in Blender from the type’s published dimensions, painted as G-ACSS ‘Grosvenor House’, the Shuttleworth Collection’s de Havilland DH.88 Comet (c/n 1996), which C. W. A. Scott and Tom Campbell Black flew from Mildenhall to Melbourne in 71 hours to win the MacRobertson England–Australia air race of October 1934, later tested by the RAF as K5084, flown again as ‘The Burberry’ on Arthur Clouston’s long-distance record flights of 1937–38, restored to fly at Hatfield in 1987 and flown from Old Warden since 2002: the two-seat wooden racer that de Havilland designed and built in nine months, 44 ft in span, with a thin cantilever wing, a long slender fuselage seating pilot and navigator in tandem under a framed canopy, two 230 hp de Havilland Gipsy Six R engines in slim nacelles and a main undercarriage that retracted by handwheel, shown standing tail-down on its wheels and tailskid: gloss red overall with a tapering white cheat line along each side, ‘Grosvenor House’ in white small capitals on the nose, a white ‘G-ACSS’ on the rear fuselage, a black race number ‘34’ on a white oval on both sides of the fin, large white registration letters across the upper and lower wings, polished spinners and two-blade propellers with yellow tips, as it flies today (the undercarriage linkage is simplified, and the stations of the underwing letters are estimated from photographs). Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom · all 215 models · download .glb (1.3 MB) · Plate 57 in The Hangar