Mikro-Mir 72022 1/72 De Havilland DH108 Swallow

Unassembled plastic model kit in 1/72 scale of a British de Havilland DH 108 “Swallow” experimental aircraft.

The de Havilland DH 108 "Swallow" was a British experimental aircraft designed by John Carver Meadows Frost in October 1945. The DH 108 featured a tailless, swept wing with a single vertical stabilizer, similar to the layout of the wartime German Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet. Initially designed to evaluate swept wing handling characteristics at low and high subsonic speeds for the proposed early tailless design of the Comet airliner, three examples of the DH 108 were built to Air Ministry specifications E.18/45. With the adoption of a conventional tail for the Comet, the aircraft were used instead to investigate swept wing handling up to supersonic speeds. All three prototypes were lost in fatal crashes.

Includes

• Two types of canopies

• Main wing tip parts

• Painted mask stickers to reproduce the decals of Unit 1 TG283 and Unit 2 TG306 and the features of both machines

Specifications

• When completed, the total width will be about 165 mm

• Item Size: 25 x 15 x 3.8 cm