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6 cze 2013 · I'm going to be starting Revell's 1/32nd Bell X-1 and I'm looking for some good detail photos and technical diagrams. I've found a couple basic diagrams online, but I'll be rescribing the panels and I'd like to have some official diagrams to go by.
The cockpit hatch is separate and can be depicted as removed or attached (open or closed). The kit also includes a decent looking XLR-11 rocket motor, but everything except the exhaust nozzle disappears inside the airframe when the fuselage halves come together.
22 lip 2003 · The rest of the photo-etched bits are used to detail the landing gear, cockpit, fore and aft landing gear well bulkheads, and rocket motor exhaust. The resin parts are mainly for the cockpit. They include the distinctive left-side wall console as well as other various small instrument clusters situated around the cockpit.
19 gru 2009 · I was really amazed at the size of the kit and thought I would show some size comparison to other kits of the X-1. At the top of the pic is the Pegasus kit, under it is the 1/32 Revell offering, next is the Eduard 1/48 kit and at the bottom is the 12 Squared 1/72 scale X-1.
Eduard should be commended on the great quality of the windscreen. There are 32 photo-etched parts include three different instrument panels. Choose the one that suits the version you are doing. Most of the photo-etched parts are for exterior enhancement but there are some great little cockpit pieces too.
The X-1’s instrument panel is old-school, and the lack of automation in the cockpit meant that flying the rocket-powered aircraft was strictly a hands-on exercise for its pilot.
A Bell Aircraft Corporation X-1 series aircraft cockpit instruments display. The gages reflecting the airplane's parameters such as indicated pressure altitude, indicated airspeed, rocket chamber pressure, fuel and liquid oxygen supply, angle of attack, angle of sideslip, and Mach number are shown.
