From 4P Press
STL (3D Model) – Sale Price $2.25 USD
This is an STL file for your 3Dprinter of the British WWI aircraft DH5.
The DH5 was designed by famed aircraft designer Geoffrey de Havilland, apparently while he was taking a break from being a genius.
The idea behind the DH5 was to provide the pilot with excellent forward vision, a goal at which it succeeded quite well. But while the pilot may have been able to see enemy aircraft in front of him, there was little he could do about it.
The DH5 was slow, and while fairly agile, the machine had problems climbing and even keeping altitude. Furthermore, the backward stagger of the top wing that gave the pilot such grand views forward, blocked that very same pilot's rear view, offering up an enormous blind spot in the exact place an enemy would be prone to attack.
And at a time when the Allies had figured out what the Germans had known all along, that two machineguns are better than one, the DH5 stubbornly mounted only one.
The DH5 was less than popular with the few units doomed to fly it, and soon they were given over to ground-attack duties, and then quietly removed from service.
The model is scaled at 1:100th, but may be printed successfully at smaller or even larger scales (though with a corresponding loss of detail) depending on the quality of the printer and type of material.
The download also contains a 1:285 scale version.