rharshberger
Well-Known Member
Franks now got me headed in the direction of a scale Mercury Atlas, maybe using a Estes NC or maybe not.
Franks now got me headed in the direction of a scale Mercury Atlas, maybe using a Estes NC or maybe not.
Very cool. I like it when people try something unusual.
We used foam to build the 19' N1 (Russian Moon rocket) in 2001:
www.moonrace2001.org/n1_rocket.shtml
The middle photo, with the red tail section is sort of a bastardized display model-- It may be an Atlas A with a sustainer engine thrown in, or it's an Atlas B, with a warhead of a later model that didn't fly on either type. Only A and and some B models had the pointed tunnels of matching length.
Might be ready to fly, but I probably won't, I usually need a month or two of staring at the model before I get over the emotional attachment and won't be heartbroken if it crashes...Saturn V, don't know...still thinking about a minuteman or 12" little joe II..
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Frank
The Atlas is looking fantastic.
Speaking of Little Joe IIs, a model aircraft and rocket buddy of mine and I have been discussing a team effort on a 1/10 scale Little Joe II (about 15.4" in dia and about 103" long) using the Depron approach.
Cool, if you do it then I won't have to At that scale, if you keep it light, you could maybe fit the recovery gear into the escape tower tube
Due to the large fins, I thought of having mine come down horizontally, maybe with side ejection or something...
I did a test and it looks like the makrolon/lexan fins are gluing to the foam and tube well, had anyone had a bad experience with foam safe ca and lexan? Any foam safe alternatives?
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