This will be a build thread for the Atlas Mercury 1/12 scale based on the Atomic City 1/12 scale Mercury capsule.
I have been working on this project for over a year and do not know when it will be done. Originally, I thought that this project would be the first of its kind, but I have found that Matt Johnson has already built one and flown his model. Matt has given me a lot of good advice on how to continue! You can see his project on page 11 of the Nov/Dec 2012 issue of Sport Rocketry magazine. A video for the flight is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTNzBkHH-rI
This shows that the project is doable. Matt used clear plastic fins around the central (sustainer) motor. The Sherry Rocket's Atlas Mercury model did the same thing. I, also, did something similar to convert the 1/35 scale Estes Atlas Mercury to a 3-motor cluster. I recently posted this conversion for the Estes Atlas Mercury on the Rocket Reviews EMRR website. The original Estes model had auxiliary tubes with fins placed in the outer booster motor locations to make the model stable.
I have been working on this project for over a year and do not know when it will be done. Originally, I thought that this project would be the first of its kind, but I have found that Matt Johnson has already built one and flown his model. Matt has given me a lot of good advice on how to continue! You can see his project on page 11 of the Nov/Dec 2012 issue of Sport Rocketry magazine. A video for the flight is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTNzBkHH-rI
This shows that the project is doable. Matt used clear plastic fins around the central (sustainer) motor. The Sherry Rocket's Atlas Mercury model did the same thing. I, also, did something similar to convert the 1/35 scale Estes Atlas Mercury to a 3-motor cluster. I recently posted this conversion for the Estes Atlas Mercury on the Rocket Reviews EMRR website. The original Estes model had auxiliary tubes with fins placed in the outer booster motor locations to make the model stable.
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