Mixed material on wood base, c.2008, wingspan 15 1/2 inches, fuselage 15 1/2 inches, 9 1/4 inches tall, plaque on base reads: "X-55 Advanced Composite Cargo Aircraft Technology Demonstrator / 1/50th Scale / Lockheed Martin."
The Skunk Works facility of Lockheed Martin built this one-off experimental twinjet transport aircraft to prove it could design and fabricate a cost-effective C-130 successor, transforming a Fairchild Dornier Do-328JET into the X-55. This rare in-house model is said to be one of only two examples.
Mixed material on wood base, c.2008, wingspan 15 1/2 inches, fuselage 15 1/2 inches, 9 1/4 inches tall, plaque on base reads: "X-55 Advanced Composite Cargo Aircraft Technology Demonstrator / 1/50th Scale / Lockheed Martin."
The Skunk Works facility of Lockheed Martin built this one-off experimental twinjet transport aircraft to prove it could design and fabricate a cost-effective C-130 successor, transforming a Fairchild Dornier Do-328JET into the X-55. This rare in-house model is said to be one of only two examples.
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