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Well, not really.....
So I've had a desire to do an RC RG Mace or Matador, I like that 50's-60's era cruise missile look.... I've seen Mace and Matador missiles up close in Albequerque and at wright patterson, and I read a good book called US air force tactical missiles which talks about the deployment of these...
For the design, I was worried about having a stiff enough control mechanism for the t tail for pitch was worried about the tail weight. The T tail is too small as is for enough pitch authority for the CG shift. I thought maybe I could do just elevons on the wing like on a snark, but the wings are pretty far forward and I wasn't sure of the pitch effectiveness of the elevons on a wing that far forward, whether I'd have to move the cg a lot or not, flying wings don't handle cg shift for motor burnout in an rc rg as well as nicely as model with a tail....Also, the chord on the wing is pretty small so cutting an elevon out takes a lot of the wing and I was worried about wing flex and losing a lot of the lift with the movable surfaces...so I sort of shelved the idea....
Then the other day I saw a posting about morerockets.com and noticed the Menace kit....at the same time I was posting about a PNC-80B nose cone and found one in a box to take a picture, and realized, hey I have a nose cone here.....
I've previously done a triangle fused A model ALCM and the Menace looked like a round tube version of an ALCM, I thought about an upscaled menace but that's almost the same look as the ALCM...
Maybe I could do a mashup with upscaled menace wings, ALCM full flying elevators for roll and pitch, do the vertical tail like a Mace and steal the Menace/ALCM style markings...
and here is the mutant result.....
So I've had a desire to do an RC RG Mace or Matador, I like that 50's-60's era cruise missile look.... I've seen Mace and Matador missiles up close in Albequerque and at wright patterson, and I read a good book called US air force tactical missiles which talks about the deployment of these...
For the design, I was worried about having a stiff enough control mechanism for the t tail for pitch was worried about the tail weight. The T tail is too small as is for enough pitch authority for the CG shift. I thought maybe I could do just elevons on the wing like on a snark, but the wings are pretty far forward and I wasn't sure of the pitch effectiveness of the elevons on a wing that far forward, whether I'd have to move the cg a lot or not, flying wings don't handle cg shift for motor burnout in an rc rg as well as nicely as model with a tail....Also, the chord on the wing is pretty small so cutting an elevon out takes a lot of the wing and I was worried about wing flex and losing a lot of the lift with the movable surfaces...so I sort of shelved the idea....
Then the other day I saw a posting about morerockets.com and noticed the Menace kit....at the same time I was posting about a PNC-80B nose cone and found one in a box to take a picture, and realized, hey I have a nose cone here.....
I've previously done a triangle fused A model ALCM and the Menace looked like a round tube version of an ALCM, I thought about an upscaled menace but that's almost the same look as the ALCM...
Maybe I could do a mashup with upscaled menace wings, ALCM full flying elevators for roll and pitch, do the vertical tail like a Mace and steal the Menace/ALCM style markings...
and here is the mutant result.....
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