More wood butchery ' X-37

[sandman]

Basic shape looks right to me. This one is about 7" long

Anybody know where I can find dimension drawings?

Also does anybody know where I can find pics of the launch configuration of the Atlas V with this thing on top?

It sure is getting harder to be inspired with new spacecraft.

[SMR]

you might get some info from these guys...


http://www.anigrand.com/AA5008_RLV.htm


they make a very fine series of wooden models.

[MaxQ]

Basic shape looks right to me. This one is about 7" long

Anybody know where I can find dimension drawings?

Also does anybody know where I can find pics of the launch configuration of the Atlas V with this thing on top?

It sure is getting harder to be inspired with new spacecraft.

Well, you beat me to it Gordo. Looks pretty good.

I have one "in progress" on my work table right now.......I exagerated the wings - made them larger to lighten the wing loading.

I got all the photos I could find and then took the 29 foot length and 15 foot wingspan and proportioned a 1/10 scale version.

I rolled a 3" diam. body tube, foam cored some centering rings and foam blocked a nose, and set it up to eject a 24mm internal pod with nose weight and try this out as a boost glider.
18 inches long...with a much wider wingspan than the scaling would indicate.
I have to shape the nose and put the vertical V tail stabs on...hope to do some hand tosses off a slope and see what happens....

This is as close as I got to finding a "vertical alignment" shot...adapter but - no booster shown (you've probably seen this)

From what I read...this thing is going to be launched on the Atlas under a shroud, so maybe it won't matter....I know there was a picture..(artists rendering only) of that shroud covered launch configuration.....

As far as dimensions...here is a link to a 1/72 kit for reference...maybe it is correct, I can't tell:
http://www.fantastic-plastic.com/X-37BCatalogPage.htm

There was a guy in the ARC Forums making a very detailed 1/48th scale model in resin...at one time he had a picture of the model with a scale laying right beside it...that picture is now gone (.....wonder why) ...you'd think this really is a top secret project.


If you have the dimensions of The White Knight...then one could approximate the X37B...

[MaxQ]

.. the USAF "Fact Sheet" didn't have much...I noted the dimensions were not what I read elswhere...but may be more accurate.
http://spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av012/x37factsheet.pdf

Shrouded in secrecy........


Rocket: Atlas 5
Payload: X-37B - Orbital Test Vehicle
Date: April 19, 2010
Window: 6:49-9:12 p.m. EDT
Site: SLC-41, Cape Canaveral, Florida

[powderburner]

Anybody know where I can find dimension drawings?

I have been doing some preliminary digging for the past few months and I haven't found a thing in the way of a decent, scale-looking three view. Absolutely nothing in the way of cross-sections.

I am beginning to wonder if that information is somehow classified. (Hey, I've seen stranger things happen.)

[sandman]

"Top Secret" seems to be taking all the fun out of it!

I see I am off on a few dimensions but I can change that.

[Micromeister]

Still lookin pretty darn good Sandman. Been carving on a much smaller block that looks a little like that myself. LOL!!!

Only reference stuff I have are the nasa concept dwgs and mostly the same pics already posted.

[sandman]

Still lookin pretty darn good Sandman. Been carving on a much smaller block that looks a little like that myself. LOL!!!

Only reference stuff I have are the nasa concept dwgs and mostly the same pics already posted.

Those last pics from Max Q (THANKS!) are perfect. I can do better now.

I'll work on it this weekend.

[MaxQ]

Hopefully we'll all get a better look at this thing very soon, (like April 19th maybe?) unless they clamp down on press coverage.

You'd think there was some nefarious purpose to this thing, liked raining "rods from the Gods" on an Iranian nuclear reactor or something.....