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Title: Douglas X-3 Stiletto
The Douglas X-3 was one of the most futuristic looking of the many experimental aircraft which proliferated at the end of the 1940’s and beginning of the 1950’s. It was produced to investigate the design features of an aircraft capable of sustained supersonic flight, and also the use of Titanium for major airframe components.
Unfortunately it was incapable of fulfilling its primary role due to a lack of suitably powerful engines and it was barely capable of attaining mach 1 in level flight. It undertook a number of test flights between 1952 and 1956 which provided valuable information on roll inertia coupling, small unswept highly loaded wings (as later used in the F-104) and high-speed take-off and landing speeds. The sole example was retired to the USAF Museum.
This title contains the preliminary military flight manual for the Douglas X-3 along with a NASA flight test report. The files have been scanned from the original flight manuals and retain any colour pages unless otherwise stated.
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