I'm still impressed by how it flies horizontally. Cool stuff.
Thanks! This one just had to take off horizontally to be true to the show. Time for some mods and to fly again.
Could a cluster work on the big 40th Anniversary model?
I know one way to find out
Hehehe, I like the last option.
How do you justify to the wife you just spent $50 on a delicate plastic model you are going to modify with many expensive rocket motors?
Now, that's a totally different type of mindsim!
If I had that I would glue it to my lat build "Heavenly Rider." Might sneak off to Hobby Lobby today for some fake gems to glue on that rocket.
They should have a nice selection of peel and stick gems.
I'm late but wow, congrats! That's so awesome! I had lingering doubts about the side-to-side stability but you made it work. I love the creativity and the out-of-box (mind?) thinking! Way to go!!!
That is so great, I don't even think of horizontal boosts.....I'm still stuck "in the box".....need to get out.....
Sounds like it doesn't need no stinking streamer.
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Although it would look much less scale, what if you installed the equivalent of a "launch escape tower" above the model, with two engines 'canted' so their exhaust would clear each side of the eagle?
Just a thought....
Motors up front would work if you can prevent melting the model. But the center mount motor worked fine and it looked good.
Who is this and what have you done with the real Daddyisabar?
Motors up front would work if you can prevent melting the model. But the center mount motor worked fine and it looked good.
I meant to have both engines canted, sort-of like how the rocket nozzles on the NASA Mercury & Apollo launch escape towers were canted so the exhausts were not 'blowing'<?> directly on the space capsules.
BP motors put out an intense area of heat in a plume with lots of sparks and soot, and that plastic easily melts.
So even canted I think they would have to be up a ways; but it would work and be even more stable. Canted tractor motors rule!
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