I did just get them but I’m in British Columbia fishingDid your motors show up? I want to see your Nike fly at NXRS!
Gunning for the Rocketober launch.
I did just get them but I’m in British Columbia fishingDid your motors show up? I want to see your Nike fly at NXRS!
Those were scheduled to fly in 2006 and updated in 2009, but I haven't seen anything latelyGreat job! Have you seen the new Nike projects from Wedge Oldham?
http://www.nikeproject.com/Next/WhatsNext.htm
Those were scheduled to fly in 2006 and updated in 2009, but I haven't seen anything lately
I'm glad you are doing this so I don't have toAhh. John Thompson sent it to me and said it was supposed to be coming up in a couple years.
I am starting a 1/2 scale Ajax right now
HI Duncan - thanks for the kind words. The sustainer really does have a boat tail in real life, but it's reliefed deep in the booster interstage shroud. I chose to expose more - and yes that blows scale - because I needed more room for chutes and drogues. There's so little room for that in the booster couple already, that I had to make a choice.Very nice build. I'm in the process of noodling through a LPR version. You used a boattail on the sustainer but I wonder if you considered actually going with the Sears-Haack shape of the actual second stage? I'm committed to trying to do so although I imagine it's going to be easier in LPR than in your build. Again, though, it looks fantastic.
Aaaand then I found this....... https://aviation.stackexchange.com/...ated-sears-haack-body-change-with-a-cylindricYou're welcome. You've put a lot of thought and careful work into it. I hope she flies well. And yes - I knew that the tail of the sustainer did continue into the shroud but I was thinking about the curvature. According to at least a couple of sources I've looked at the sustainer is a continuous curve - it's not obvious in most pictures but it's shaped like this:
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The Sears-Haack body.
Or maybe it is. It is REALLY hard to tell from most photos as the white color doesn't show contrasts well and to be honest I don't know for sure if the middle portion is definitely still a continuous curve although if it is it would be so slight as to be a "modified" Sears-Haack? But if you look at these it's a little easier to tell:
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And honestly I am kicking myself on this one - there's a static display only 30 miles from me that I've been to innumerable times and I simply did not look closely at the Hercules. https://hampton.gov/facilities/facility/details/Air-Power-Park-23.
Here's the posted info on it at Air Power Park:
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In that information it looks maybe linear in the middle portion....??? But I've also seen technical drawings where the central body is in fact not curved and the tail does appear to be a boattail.
So I'm not entirely sure. Next time I'm at Air Power Park I'm going to take a closer look.
That all being said, it is also possible that there were a couple of variations on the Hercules (it seems like that happened a lot during this time period, especially with the Nike project fitting pieces and parts from one to another) and some are truly Sears-Haack bodied and some are not.
Either way, it sure is a nice build you've got going on. Hope to see video of its flight.
Hey Duncan - while it may be true that the sustainer is truly a Sears-Haack body, my experience building this Nike Hercules is that getting to true scale is about twice as expensive as Sport Scale. Unless you are 3D Printing the fuselage, I can't imagine the cost of that structure being cheaper than a three-body surface like what I did, Wedge Oldham did and @dbpierce did.Aaaand then I found this....... https://aviation.stackexchange.com/...ated-sears-haack-body-change-with-a-cylindric
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