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Welcome to the Scale Nike Cajun Gallery on TRF.
This gallery showcases the Nike Cajun Sounding Rocket and those rockets derived from it. Particularly appropriate in this thread are the following:
Enertek: Nike Cajun: #8822
as well as any upscales, downscales, clones, kitbashes or other derivative works. Even Goonies qualify!
The Nike-Cajun was a two-stage sounding rocket built by combining a Nike base stage with a Cajun upper stage. It was launched 714 times between 1956 and 1976 and was the most frequently used sounding rocket of the western world. The Nike Cajun had a launch weight of 698 kg (1539 lb), a payload of 23 kg (51 lb), a launch thrust of 246 kN (55,300 lbf) and a maximum altitude of 120 km (394,000 ft). It had a diameter of 42 cm (1 ft 4½ in) and a length of 7.70 m (25 ft 3 in). The fuel time of the Nike amounted to 3 seconds, those the Cajun 2.8 seconds. The maximum speed of the Nike-Cajun was 4,200 mph (6760 km/h).
The Cajun stage of this rocket was named for the Cajun people of south Louisiana because one of the rocket's designers, J. G. Thibodaux, was a Cajun.
The Nike-Cajun configuration was also used by one variation of the MQR-13 BMTS target rocket
This gallery showcases the Nike Cajun Sounding Rocket and those rockets derived from it. Particularly appropriate in this thread are the following:
Enertek: Nike Cajun: #8822
as well as any upscales, downscales, clones, kitbashes or other derivative works. Even Goonies qualify!
The Nike-Cajun was a two-stage sounding rocket built by combining a Nike base stage with a Cajun upper stage. It was launched 714 times between 1956 and 1976 and was the most frequently used sounding rocket of the western world. The Nike Cajun had a launch weight of 698 kg (1539 lb), a payload of 23 kg (51 lb), a launch thrust of 246 kN (55,300 lbf) and a maximum altitude of 120 km (394,000 ft). It had a diameter of 42 cm (1 ft 4½ in) and a length of 7.70 m (25 ft 3 in). The fuel time of the Nike amounted to 3 seconds, those the Cajun 2.8 seconds. The maximum speed of the Nike-Cajun was 4,200 mph (6760 km/h).
The Cajun stage of this rocket was named for the Cajun people of south Louisiana because one of the rocket's designers, J. G. Thibodaux, was a Cajun.
The Nike-Cajun configuration was also used by one variation of the MQR-13 BMTS target rocket
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