General Atomics MQ-1 Predator

A procedural model built in Blender from the type’s published dimensions, painted as 03-3119, the RAF Museum London’s General Atomics MQ-1B Predator, a Block 10 aircraft flown by the US Air Force’s 432nd Wing from Creech Air Force Base in Nevada, lent to the museum as the type was retired and hung in the Hendon hall since 2018: the remotely piloted reconnaissance and strike aircraft that made armed drones part of air warfare, 55 ft 3 in in span, with one turbocharged Rotax 914 piston engine driving a two-bladed pusher propeller at the tail, a bulbous nose housing the satellite-communications dish, a long, thin straight wing, an inverted-V tail with a small ventral fin under the propeller, and a sensor turret under the nose, shown standing level on its tricycle undercarriage without weapons: light grey overall with a low-visibility black-and-white star-and-bar and a black ‘AF 03’ and ‘119’ on each side of the rear fuselage, the 432nd Wing’s black ‘CH’ tail code and a small badge on the upper faces of the tail surfaces, a navy, red and green chequered band near each tail tip, a unit badge on the port side of the nose and a grey propeller with yellow tips, as displayed (in the museum it hangs with its main legs removed, the nose wheel retracted and a blanking plate in place of the sensor turret, so the undercarriage and turret follow in-service MQ-1Bs, and the star-and-bar above the port wing follows US Air Force practice rather than a photograph). Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom · all 215 models · download .glb (652 KB) · Plate 214 in The Hangar