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In the process of another active period in rocketry after about 15 years of flying R/C with only a little rocketry activity mixed in.
Thought some of you might enjoy like to see my old (19 years old and going strong) own design Mig-21 boost glider for 24mm motors. Folks that attended the DARS launches around 1995-1998 and NARAM in 1996 in Evansville, Indiana might remember this model. It was flown mostly before the internet got huge, so not a lot about it out there on the WWW.
I do not have a close up photo handy, but will load one up later. This particular launch was a couple of years ago at the SMALL Steps model aircraft event in Little Rock, AR, what happens to be very rocket freindly and especially rocket and boost glider freindly..
The Mig-21 was based on some not too common NCR 2" tubing. 1/8" hard balsa wings and tails. Internal pop pod ala the old Estes gliding Bomarc (sigh). Flights very nicely on D12-3s. It started out with a card stock shock cone in the nose, but later it started sporting a HobbyLab SR-71 shock cone, as I have a pile of them left over from the HobbyLab days. Carved and hollowed light balsa turtledeck fairing, vac formed canopy, airbrushed lacquer camoflauge, Russian stars from trim Monokote.
Probably has 70 plus flights on it and was flown last this past June. Had it out at the DARs High Power launch in Gunter, but never got it out of the car. It does need a repaint as it has a lot of years on the original finish...
Back in 1998 I started a 4" diameter version of the Mig-21 for I power, but it was never finished....perhaps I will tackle it soon, if I can find it in my storage/disaster area.... Plan was to have a water ballest tank in the nose draining during boost phase (ala George Gassaways X-1) that would correct the CG shift during boost.
This thing has to be one of my longest lasting rockets ever, althrough several years can pass between brief flurries of flying the thing.
Thought some of you might enjoy like to see my old (19 years old and going strong) own design Mig-21 boost glider for 24mm motors. Folks that attended the DARS launches around 1995-1998 and NARAM in 1996 in Evansville, Indiana might remember this model. It was flown mostly before the internet got huge, so not a lot about it out there on the WWW.
I do not have a close up photo handy, but will load one up later. This particular launch was a couple of years ago at the SMALL Steps model aircraft event in Little Rock, AR, what happens to be very rocket freindly and especially rocket and boost glider freindly..
The Mig-21 was based on some not too common NCR 2" tubing. 1/8" hard balsa wings and tails. Internal pop pod ala the old Estes gliding Bomarc (sigh). Flights very nicely on D12-3s. It started out with a card stock shock cone in the nose, but later it started sporting a HobbyLab SR-71 shock cone, as I have a pile of them left over from the HobbyLab days. Carved and hollowed light balsa turtledeck fairing, vac formed canopy, airbrushed lacquer camoflauge, Russian stars from trim Monokote.
Probably has 70 plus flights on it and was flown last this past June. Had it out at the DARs High Power launch in Gunter, but never got it out of the car. It does need a repaint as it has a lot of years on the original finish...
Back in 1998 I started a 4" diameter version of the Mig-21 for I power, but it was never finished....perhaps I will tackle it soon, if I can find it in my storage/disaster area.... Plan was to have a water ballest tank in the nose draining during boost phase (ala George Gassaways X-1) that would correct the CG shift during boost.
This thing has to be one of my longest lasting rockets ever, althrough several years can pass between brief flurries of flying the thing.
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