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NAE™Classroom: NAE™ Model Designs

This page is where those who are following our project - students, fans, and racing fanatics - and who have built, constructed, or formed a model of the NAE™ out of any material, have it shown off. We believe that if someone goes to such lengths to make a model, it deserves recognition for their efforts. Got your own model of the NAE™? Submit your images of your creation to the teacher, with an accompanying explanation of how it was made and it will be posted here. Who knows, perhaps this will grow into a contest. To view a model of a land speed car made years ago, link to "Early Concept F-104".

Update for 07/05/25: For a very interesting web page about a sled built out of cardboard to look like an F-104, go to this link.

Entry #1:

Hey Jon, this is Sean Hoglund and I talked to you at the "Need For Speed" event at the Museum of Flight last week-end; 4/4/04. I'm with the University of Washington Mechanical Engineering Department and I took a rapid prototyping class last summer and I made this model of you car. The model was made with a three step process. First, a two part mold was printed on a 3-D printer from the Solid Works Model I made. Next, it was filled with a RTV silicon to make a negative mold. Once the RTV silicon was cured, I filled it with a polymer cast solution which cures in 90 seconds to make the final part. Time has taken its toll on the appearance of the polymer cast model because I never got around to painting it yet, but it still looks pretty cool.

Click on any image for an enlarged view.

Entry #2:

Edward Mildenhall of the U.K., recently submitted this set of photos of his initial work. Here's his message that came with them: "Jon, As you were kind enough to answer my quires I thought that I would send a couple of foto's of my model. At moment I am working on the decal sheet getting ready for the low speed runs, this model is in 1/72 scale. Later the plan is for a second model of the supersonic trim and this maybe in a larger scale. All best wishes for the future for all the team - Big Ed".

Entry #3:

While this photo of Russell Garlow's model is not of a model of the NAE™, it is a model of what it looked like when it was in service for NASA as a chase plane.

Entry #4:

This modeler from the Netherlands, has his own web site with a page of his model of the NAE™.

Entry #5:

Michael Clemente of New Jersey submitted these photos of his model of 56-0762, the sister ship to our '104.  Click 'NF-104 Sister Bird' in the navigation bar to learn the history of this plane.

Entry #6:

While not a model of the NAE™, here's what one of our 800 Club members, Raymond Impastato, did of Craig Breedlove's first jet LSV, the 1963 Spirit of America which won Best in Category and Judge’s Choice at the IPMS Nationals in 2000. Perhaps Ray will take top prize next year with his NAE™ model.

Entry #7:

This little replica of the NAE™ was given to Ed by one of our visitors to the Northwest Aviation Conference & Trade Show.

06/01/24 Update:

NAE™ Team Member Russell Garlow is in the process of building a model for the team's presentations. His dad, Don in Sacramento, machined the wheels and struts for this project.

I started tearing into the model over the weekend. The canards were done very quickly using the fins from the tip tanks, they are to scale and shaped right. The spine "bump" will require fairly major fill work, and is proving tricky.

The model snaps apart in many places, which makes it easier. The trick is going to be mounting my dad's undercarriage properly so the model "sits" correctly. More work this week, if I can find the time.

06/03/10 Update:

I received the completed sets for the undercarriage, and have placed the forward mounts in the fuselage. The thing looks level and it has the right height…a major step complete! The prototype (at right above) is now complete for finish/ fairings, and ready for paint. Primer goes on tomorrow.

Russell Garlow

06/03/27 Update:

Ed Shadle, owner/driver of the NAE™, completed the four foot model pictured here and sent it off today to the SAE conference being held in early April in Chicago where PCB Pieziotronics, Inc. - one of NAE's™ sponsors - will be using it to demonstrate how their sensors will work on the car.

06/04/10 Update:

Russell Garlow has completed his first NAE™ model (1:18 scale) and got to place it on display at the annual Washington Civil Air Patrol conference this month. Nice work dude!

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