Manufacturer: Fairey

Model: FDX-1B

Name: Delta X

Type: Jet attack

Date:

Status: Prototype

Country: United Kingdom

Service: Royal Air Force

Designation: Delta X Mk IB

Here is the idea: take a picture of an aircraft you like. Try to tinker with it until you obtain a totally different bird... and voilà!

I snatched the illo from the box of the Fairey FD.1 kit and invented a radical development called the FDX.1B or Fairey "Delta X1"...

• Proof that longer is better! (David R. Townend)
• Lengthening the aircraft is one thing but... inventing the background behind is another difficulty. Congratulations! (Tophe)