jfcusson
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As promised, here are pictures in bright sunlight of the Black Brant 9 installed in front of the Canadian Space Agency headquarters near Montreal.
Cool Photos thanks for sharing them.
I wonder why the outside skin on the upper stage did not cover the lower fin section ?
Bobby
Regarding drawing 600-00389 (Dave's first attachment), I believe that drawing has an error in the depiction of the taper line that starts at the tip at STA 208.75. As that line reaches the root, it lands at a location forward of the fin can joint, and forward of the forward edge of the fin foot. I've not seen any BBVB/C fin with that feature; all of them have that taper line landing in line with the forward edge of the fin foot at the root.
try a magnet on a pole first then a camera on a pole
while on the subject of Black Brant Fins I just stumbled across the Magellan website and it shows a Black Brant Fin
in the manufacturing process at this link
https://magellan.aero/product/rockets/black-brant/
Interestingly, it looks like they used a BB9 (in 2017) to test the parachute for the latest (2020-21) Mars mission:
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