Estes DOM - Space Twins (#41) Gallery

I'll have to take a picture of mine.

I used dope to paint the gliders orange and blue. The core is still "naked" after maybe ten years.

It's a great design, and flies really well.

I wonder if it would scale up. BT-20 gliders, BT-50 core. Not too different from the old MPC Lunar Patrol . . .

StefanJ said:

I wonder if it would scale up. BT-20 gliders, BT-50 core.

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Nicely. Mine is BT-55 core with BT-50 gliders. Best gliders I've ever flown. I even used one to sub for my Condor glider after it got killed at VOA.

Is there any place to download the plans or temples?

The Space Twins plans are here: https://www.spacemodeling.org/JimZ/eirp_41.htm . Keep in mind that you will need legal size paper (8½" x 14") to print this one out at the correct size.

OK, here is my Space Twins:

How'd they fly? I need to rebuild the gliders for mine since only one survived the last flight. I think they'd work best if they match in parts. At least I still have one left to see what I did right.

The gliders currently fly really well. Not quite a circular path, but enough that I haven't had to walk much to retrieve them.

In the past, the blue one suffered a spell of warping that caused it to flutter. But for the last year or so has glided really nicely.

I think the booster / core could be longer. Another 6" or so wouldn't hurt. I might splice on some more body tube when I do the current needed repair, re-attaching the kevlar shock cord anchor!

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I'd like to plug the Space Twins as a nice mid-range project. It makes a wonderful demo model. If I build another, I'd give it a "patriotic" red, white, and blue paint job, with minimal dope on the gliders and lots of Trim monokote stripes and sticker-stars.

StefanJ said:

I'd like to plug the Space Twins as a nice mid-range project. It makes a wonderful demo model. If I build another, I'd give it a "patriotic" red, white, and blue paint job, with minimal dope on the gliders and lots of Trim monokote stripes and sticker-stars.

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I left mine bare. The black nosecone is just a stock, unpainted PNC-56, while the glider cones came in a nose cone assortment that I bought from Apogee in 2001 or so. They were red, and the balsa on the gliders turned out so nice that I also left them unpainted.

Welcome to the Estes DOM Space Twins (#41) Gallery on TRF.

This gallery showcases the Estes DOM Space Twins (#41) and those rockets derived from it. Particularly appropriate in this thread are the following:


Estes DOM: Space Twins: #41



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Estes DOM Space Twins (#41) Basic Information.

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MODEL NAME: Space Twins Also known as:

NUMBER: #41

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Type: Boost Glider
Motor Mount: 1x18mm
Recovery: Streamer/Glide + Glide
Stages: 1
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