Bell XV-15 Tiltrotor N702NA in scale 1/72.
Built with "Akatombo Works" kit from Hong Kong.
Full resine kit with vacu
canopy. Built mostly "out-of-the-box". RESCUE-decs from spare parts box.
Paint scheme airbrushed/handpainted
by swisscopter based from original NASA research pictures.
Self-made parts:
- rotor shafts (carbon fibre)
- nose research sensor (used
an injection needle)
- cockpit air condition
panel
- seat belts
- instrument board
Original (2 ships prototype)
was built for research and test flights for Bell Aircraft Inc., NASA and
the U.S. Army.
Technical expertises flowed
in Boeing-Bell V-22 OSPREY and Bell-Agusta BA-609 tiltrotor aircraft.
This model was at the "Historia 2009" Exhibition at Sion together with Bell X-1 supersonic aircraft "glamorous glennis".