Gorgeous!
Damn what a great job. Jobs!
Steve
You should take her to the "submarine races". Maybe then she'll enjoy those...But the Submarines? She shakes her head at those,
Steve
What is weird was that the Little Joe rockets were nothing more than flying trash cans. Cobbled together as cheap as possible. From what I have found out is that they were basicly 6,7, or 8 solid rockets held together by corrugated tin.
But they work wonderfully and allowed NASA to test the escape towers for Mercury and Apollo.
Andrew
What is weird was that the Little Joe rockets were nothing more than flying trash cans. Cobbled together as cheap as possible. From what I have found out is that they were basicly 6,7, or 8 solid rockets held together by corrugated tin.
But they work wonderfully and allowed NASA to test the escape towers for Mercury and Apollo.
Andrew
I wouldn't see cobbled. There's a lot of stuff under the skin.
When I did the initial sketchs and dimensions for this project - I was going to try and replicate the base structure shown in the photo, inc. the fin root attachment points and the structural ribs and rivets etc. ( I had a photo with a slightly different view...where did you get this one?)
That's certainly understandable. That's too nice a model to take a chance on a cluster failure.Once I decided to do one central motor in a non scale position for a bit of insurance for stability on a cluster flight - I kind of gave up on the idea....
The last orange panels on each side of the airframe were applied...and the decals from Sandman went on smoothly and really add a nice touch...
That does look sweet!
You have to admit that is a strange stencil they used! That is not a font, I had to "draw" each individual letter1
Yeah, as most of you know I have a 10" Mercury Redstone I fly, this would incorporate the capsule and tower from that. so all I have to do is build (how did someone describe it) a cheap tin can booster LOL
I have the tube, centering rings motor mounts fins all cut. its just time putting it all together..
thanks for inspiration !!!! yours looks outstanding!
Can't wait to see launch photos.. that cluster should be AWESOME!
I was planning on 4 54mm's two white and two long burns. to get that real scale flight.
Will something like that be possible in the scale you built? I can't think of any motors like that off hand. accept maybe like 2 c-slot motors and two bates grain motors...
After this "Joe" I may not know what to do...I've run out of "Joes"....
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