delta22
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The English Electric Thunderbird is a very cool looking surface to air missile used by the British from 1959 to 1977. It has four drop off boosters with canted nose cones and engine nozzles.
FlisKits makes a nicely detailed kit of this rocket designed to fly on 18mm motors. Look for it under scale kits.
https://www.fliskits.com/index.htm
The first time I saw a FlisKits Thunderbird, I knew I had to build one. I bought the kit, then decided to supersize it.
A couple good links on the actual rockets:
https://www.36regimentra.org.uk/TLaunch/id16.htm
https://www.braw.co.uk/thunderbird/thunderbird.htm
The Vatsaas brothers built and flew one:
https://www.vatsaas.org/rtv/arsenal/bradrocs/tbird/thunderbirdconstruction.aspx
I used the references above, including the FlisKits kit and a RockSim file posted on EMRR of the Vatsaas Thunderbird, to work up the design for the rocket I am building.
FlisKits makes a nicely detailed kit of this rocket designed to fly on 18mm motors. Look for it under scale kits.
https://www.fliskits.com/index.htm
The first time I saw a FlisKits Thunderbird, I knew I had to build one. I bought the kit, then decided to supersize it.
A couple good links on the actual rockets:
https://www.36regimentra.org.uk/TLaunch/id16.htm
https://www.braw.co.uk/thunderbird/thunderbird.htm
The Vatsaas brothers built and flew one:
https://www.vatsaas.org/rtv/arsenal/bradrocs/tbird/thunderbirdconstruction.aspx
I used the references above, including the FlisKits kit and a RockSim file posted on EMRR of the Vatsaas Thunderbird, to work up the design for the rocket I am building.