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Howdy hive mind....
I believe I have enough bits to start working on a "Vulture" from the film/TV Series "Salvage One", which starred Andy Griffith as a junk man wanting to fly to the moon and salvage all the stuff left there by NASA... The rocket was infamous for looking like it was actually built from scrapyard bits, and as TV shows go, it had that low-tech vibe that appealed to me so it's always been something I wanted to build as a flying rocket.
I'm using a BT-80 tube as the main body, I've got some BT-55 for the engine pods, along with some balsa nosecones I can whittle down into the engine pod nosepieces. It will be 24mm motor mount and I have no idea yet how I'm going to fabricate the cement-mixer capsule-nose, but I'll figure something out. I can fabricate most of the other bits from balsa, but the landing legs may need to be light hobby-grade plywood.
Anyhow, being a TV series that was pre-internet, there aren't a whole lot of photos out there. Maybe if I scour issues of STARLOG from the late 70's I can find something good, but if anyone has some good images/plans, let me know. I did a search here on TRF, but while it is mentioned a few times and even Estes did a prototype that never went into production, there ain't much, so, if you're sitting on a mountain of reference material, now is the time to share!!
Thanks!!
I believe I have enough bits to start working on a "Vulture" from the film/TV Series "Salvage One", which starred Andy Griffith as a junk man wanting to fly to the moon and salvage all the stuff left there by NASA... The rocket was infamous for looking like it was actually built from scrapyard bits, and as TV shows go, it had that low-tech vibe that appealed to me so it's always been something I wanted to build as a flying rocket.
I'm using a BT-80 tube as the main body, I've got some BT-55 for the engine pods, along with some balsa nosecones I can whittle down into the engine pod nosepieces. It will be 24mm motor mount and I have no idea yet how I'm going to fabricate the cement-mixer capsule-nose, but I'll figure something out. I can fabricate most of the other bits from balsa, but the landing legs may need to be light hobby-grade plywood.
Anyhow, being a TV series that was pre-internet, there aren't a whole lot of photos out there. Maybe if I scour issues of STARLOG from the late 70's I can find something good, but if anyone has some good images/plans, let me know. I did a search here on TRF, but while it is mentioned a few times and even Estes did a prototype that never went into production, there ain't much, so, if you're sitting on a mountain of reference material, now is the time to share!!
Thanks!!