X-15 Build

Kudos on a great flight! I love the look of the X-15. I built a model X-15 when I was a kid (around the early '60s) and had a plan to build one for an Estes motor but when I went into the Air Force in 1970, my father decided to clean out things in the storeroom and threw out a lot of my models and rockets.
Worse is that my avatar is when I first got out of the service and the Estes rockets that I still had left, he threw most of those (my Saturn C1b was the biggest loss)!
I have not been active with building or flying since then and I live in the middle of a 6 million-acre forever wild park now so no real good places to fly unless I drive at least an hour and a half!
Now that I am retired, maybe I can try to build some more. I have a Bomarc that is up to painting stage but will have to wait till spring for any more work on it at this point I guess.

Well, happy to be a member here and see what is new and fun.

My first rocket was a Coaster Corp model around 1960 (I think for the year)! Have not gotten around to getting certification for levels but may next year.

Real winner of a rocket!

Yeah, that's awesome. Boy, I'd love to see one dropped from an R/C B-29 and airstarted. Wow.

Nice to see your work turned out to be such a nice flying rocket!

There's a large R/C B-29 that dropped a X-1 that was also R/C and flew under rocket power I've never seen it done with a X15 though... It's be very cool

-Bob

That’s awesome!

You mean dropped from an RC B-52, that's correct for an X-15.....or hypothetically from the back of an XB-71 Valkyrie as was proposed....with a delta wing....

mbeels said:

Yeah, that's awesome. Boy, I'd love to see one dropped from an R/C B-29 and airstarted. Wow.

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Bruiser said:

Nice to see your work turned out to be such a nice flying rocket!

There's a large R/C B-29 that dropped a X-1 that was also R/C and flew under rocket power I've never seen it done with a X15 though... It's be very cool

-Bob

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It's worth watching a bit even after the X1 deployment and rocket motor ignition and landing of the X1. Did NOT expect a model of a B29 to do a flat spin, low level inverted pass, a bunch of other aerobatics, and finish with a wheels down loop straight into a perfect landing.

Yup, it's all good until someone forgets a wing bolt.....