Well, now that I've completed my massive Shrox build, and other things, I need to get back to the practice of making goonies as well.
This time, I'm making a goony inspired by the Dynastar LexxJet. It's one of the Shrox designed kits I built, and it's a really cool looking rocket plane.
For this goony, since the LexxJet has a long nose cone, I opted for a 60L type nose cone, instead of the shorter 60MS, as is used in the newer Bertha rockets. When I rocksim'd the design, it looked like I needed to add some nose weight. Since I have a mold for a 60L nose, I just cast it with 20g extra.
The body is a 6" section of BT60.
For the boat tail, I used a goony transition from my goony Saturn V project, which I made a mold for. It is based on the shorter 60MS, and has an internal diameter that takes a BT50.
Edit: after looking at the images taken from Rocksim's export utility, I see that it is drawing the CG in a place different than it does in the design. So, I'm not trusting the CG marker in these two exported images. The .RKT is showing the CG as I am expecting, at least on my PC.
View attachment LexxJet goony.rkt
This time, I'm making a goony inspired by the Dynastar LexxJet. It's one of the Shrox designed kits I built, and it's a really cool looking rocket plane.
For this goony, since the LexxJet has a long nose cone, I opted for a 60L type nose cone, instead of the shorter 60MS, as is used in the newer Bertha rockets. When I rocksim'd the design, it looked like I needed to add some nose weight. Since I have a mold for a 60L nose, I just cast it with 20g extra.
The body is a 6" section of BT60.
For the boat tail, I used a goony transition from my goony Saturn V project, which I made a mold for. It is based on the shorter 60MS, and has an internal diameter that takes a BT50.
Edit: after looking at the images taken from Rocksim's export utility, I see that it is drawing the CG in a place different than it does in the design. So, I'm not trusting the CG marker in these two exported images. The .RKT is showing the CG as I am expecting, at least on my PC.
View attachment LexxJet goony.rkt
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