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Followed by: "None of the e-mails I received were marked classified."

So, are you volunteering to go up in it? JR

"Nothing is as good or as bad as first reported" - a USAF Major I once worked for, can't pull up the name after all these years. JR

I just got two in the last two weeks. Not the carrier's fault though. Apparently if a body tube will not fit into the company's plastic sleeve, the acceptable course of action is to force it in. I got a Mercury Redstone with a deformed tube from a LHS and an STM-012 off od eBay, both with...

Any of the three will work, they are all designed for styrene, which is what that capsule is made of. The Testors is the slowest setting of the three, and the Tamiya is probably the most popular in the plastic modeling world. Also, MEK is a good suitable plastic welder if you have any in the...

What Al said. No accountability either academically or socially, no parental involvement, a sense of entitlement, and a system that does not engender any amount of a appreciation for achievement. Not to mention it being a test tube for all kinds of social experimentation and curriculum. JR

Sliders have been in use on full size 'chutes for years. They are one of the things that made the square chute practical for skydiving. Prior to the sliders, the opening shock of a square chute was brutal, to say the least. A nylon ring even loosely fitted to the suspension lines should make...

Loctite makes a thin CA that works pretty well, but if you get super thin CA from a hobby shop, that is the best. JR

Coat the fins with thin CA. Hit with accelerator and sand immediately. Hard and strong. It also keeps edges from getting dinged.

Try something like this. Telephone magnetos produce some serious juice. Don't accidently touch the terminals when you are cranking. It's an experience you'll likely not forget for quite some time...

At least they will know where to look for your body. Contrary to Hollywood, dumpsters, mailboxes and overturned desks make really lousy bullet stops.

The gap would be within a tube the same size as the motor (BT-50), between the top of the booster and the nozzle of the sustainer. JR

What would be considered the largest acceptable gap between the top end of a “D” booster motor and the nozzle of a “D” sustainer nozzle to ensure ignition. I am looking at a scale/semi-scale two stager that, if built to specs, would leave a 3 inch gap between the two motors. Is this wishful...

I don't use the hobby based stuff anymore. This is much more economical, and with the can size, I can dip nose cones. Put down two of three coats before you sand, then sand between each coat. You will end up with fins and cones that look like they are made of plastic when you paint them...

Try this: https://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXK110&P=ML JR

Hit the leading and trailing edges with thin CA, it will toughen them up significantly. Used this trick on VERY thin trailing edges on an RC sailplane. It works great, JR

Which Mercury Redstone - the old one with the plastic fins? I am looking for one of those. JR

I am looking for the plastic fin set from an Estes Mercury Redstone kit. If you can help me out, please let me know. Thanks, JR

I have been following your thread with a great deal of interest. I have been also been doing a PMC on a Vostok. I am using the 1/72 Mach 2 R7 rocket, converting it to the Vostok version. It has involved scratchbuilding everything from the top of the main core up. The walls on the main core...

John, Thanks for the input. Your picture looks suspiciously like the 1/100 MPC kit. I will be using the Mach 2 kit from France in 1/72 scale. It is actually an R7 prototype rocket, so to get a Vostok, I will be scratchbuilding everything from the taper above the boosters upwards from...