Phoenix AIM-54C 5.5 " scratch built... in one go

[legranddudu]

Friends,

I was simply in love with this Madcow Phoenix. But my Home Dragon had frozen the budget..so I decided to look into my building material pile...found nice wood, a LOC 5.5 nose cone and a nice piece of 5.5" pertinax tube (kind of german blue tube)...a rocketeer friend was visiting me today... we said we need to do something weird in a team effort...so we decided to try to build a scale Phoenix...it worked

first we had to cut and slot the tube, here my friend in action:


then we did cut the 4 centering rings with prepared slots for the fins, this was most of the router work:


The rest was easy going...hope you enjoy...I am pretty proud..my first real scale baby...in 7 hours scratch built...

 

[legranddudu]

The bird will be flying serial DD with a badazz dezzender from Eric. The motor will be as usual a 75mm contrail hybrid, the shortest I have which is a small K impulse but just fine for the Phoenix.
Next work: filets, housing electronics...I may ask Mark at Stickershock to produce some nice scale decals for it..

 

[dixontj93060]

Nice! My 5.5" went up on an L930 last Fall:

https://www.rocketryforum.com/showt...uot-Phoenix-Missile-Build&p=421748#post421748

 

[patelldp]

Man, you are a machine!

 

[Eric1]

I LOVE the Phoenix!!!
Hot Dawg! You had it built before you thought about it! LOL

 

[cwbullet]

That reminds me of my teen years reading TOM Clancey and the news of our attack on Libya. The Phoenix amazed me.

Great job on the build.