Nike Apaches Finished

[Edmiller]

I built two Apaches to fit on my Estes Pro Series II Nike Smoke. Check out a previous post for the transition master and mold parts. One of the Apaches is inert and just goes along for the ride. The other is a functioning second stage using electronics in the transition for ignition. 18mm motor in the Apache.

In the background is a plate I made for fin material for an upcoming project. It was made from carbon fiber and aluminized fiberglass. The air frame, not in the photo, is also made the same way. It should look like a stainless steel wire wrapped high pressure hose when complete.

 

[Fattbank64]

Good stuff!

 

[David Schwantz]

Very nice! I would like to know more about the fiberglass you used..

 

[Scott Chase]

I built two Apaches to fit on my Estes Pro Series II Nike Smoke. Check out a previous post for the transition master and mold parts. One of the Apaches is inert and just goes along for the ride. The other is a functioning second stage using electronics in the transition for ignition. 18mm motor in the Apache.

In the background is a plate I made for fin material for an upcoming project. It was made from carbon fiber and aluminized fiberglass. The air frame, not in the photo, is also made the same way. It should look like a stainless steel wire wrapped high pressure hose when complete.

Now that's what I call skills and excellent workmanship!

 

[Edmiller]

The fiberglass is a twill weave. This product is available from multiple sources. I got mine from US Composites INC. USCi It is quite a bit stiffer than normal fiberglass fabric. Composite Envisions, Composite Envisions | Carbon Fiber Fabrics, Kevlar/Aramid, Zylon, Fiberglass, Carbon Fiber/Kevlar Hybrids and Carbon Fiber/Fiberglass Hybrids also has it plus a lot of other specialty fabrics that you have never seen anywhere else.

The panel started with a 1/16" carbon plate I got from Dragon Plate, DragonPlate I did one side at a time with one layer of 5.7 oz carbon fiber cloth and then one layer of aluminized fiberglass. Clear epoxy is a must or the finish will no be nice. Ecopoxy When the two layers were applied I applied a layer of peel ply and smoothed it to remove air bubbles with a squeegee. When dry the peel ply was pulled off and one coat of clear epoxy applied and let set to cure. Then tthe other side was done. I did not vacuum bag the plate.

 

[Ez2cDave]

 

[Edmiller]

Thanks for the more accurate Thiokol logo.

 

[Ez2cDave]

Thanks for the more accurate Thiokol logo.

You are very welcome !

A few more NKE-APACHE related items ( I have more ).

Dave F.

 

[Edmiller]

Thanks for the photos. I was thinking about making a sport scale Nike Apache for NARAM next year. Still collecting info.

 

[Ez2cDave]

Thanks for the photos. I was thinking about making a sport scale Nike Apache for NARAM next year. Still collecting info.

Shoot me an email . . . Files get compressed on the Forum.

I'll share my data with you . . .

[email protected]

Dave F.

 

[OverTheTop]

Looking good so far. Adding the paint and decals really make them pop.

I flew a half-scale Nike Apache last year, O3400-M2020. I also built the Cosmodrome Rocketry 1:6 scale kit. There is some historical stuff on the thread too that you might find interesting:
https://forum.ausrocketry.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=5019

 

[Edmiller]

Nice job. Interesting info..

 

[Edmiller]

Message for Ez2cDave. I sent you an email but it bounced back and said invalid address.

Mine is- [email protected]

 

[Charles_McG]

Just for fun, here are my Tomahawk motor spec plates. Slightly personalized.
I couldn't upload the Illustrator file, but PDF should be fine in this case. It's all vector, so it can be scaled to any size your printer can handle.

 

[Ez2cDave]

This is an APACHE motor spec plate. These are actually paper labels ( probably "peel & stick" ).

The one in the pic is on a TE-416 TOMAHAWK ( applied to the motor by Thiokol. The Fins are installed later by the "end user" ).

Dave F.

 

[Charles_McG]

Whoops. I was off a rocket.

 

[Ez2cDave]

Whoops. I was off a rocket.

But, still a nice piece of data, sir !

 

[Charles_McG]

Especially since I think I took the Apache data plate and filled in the Tomahawk info.
And created a fictional manufacturing plant.

 

[Charles_McG]

And it's not like this little piece of possible fiction.