For the 2003 Centennial of Flight celebration our club (Narhams) partnered with the AIAA to build, display and fly a 14 model exhibit highlighting the manned spaceflight vehicles from Goddards first Liquid fueled rocket to the Space Shuttle. We decided to do the display in 1-72 Scale. to take advantage of several Scale kits avaible at the time. the remaining 12 were scratch built models or Plastic model coversions. So it was that the Bell X-1 turned out to be a PMC powered by Micro Maxx-II motor. after extensive plastic removal inside the model the final mass was still an extreme 18.65g but that was enougth to get a flight and 6" chute recovery without breaking anything... we won't discuss the altitude. which was somewere between 8 and 9 feet LOL!!! does make an interesting conversion, IF I were to do it again i'd open the rear a good bit more using a cluster of at least 2 MMX-II motors.
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