For 20 years, I’ve collected vintage desktop models distributed by companies in the aircraft and aerospace industries. In recent years I’ve concentrated on the X Planes, a series of experimental research vehicles that began with the Bell XS-1 and continues today through Lockheed Martin's X-56A.
Here are selected examples from that collection, arranged numerically, along with models that I acquired simply because I found them pleasing. The site focuses on just the models; for information on the actual aircraft, see Jay Miller’s The X-Planes X-1 to X-45 (Midland, 2001) and American X-Vehicles: An Inventory X-1 to X-50 by Dennis Jenkins, Tony Landis, and Jay Miller (NASA, 2003).
