Looks good!
There are only a handful of Aerotech single use motors available to you that will safely lift this beast. F50 Blue Thunder, G40 & G80 White lightning motors and the G77 Redline. The G78 Mojave Green just doesn't have enough *umph* to safely lift it. They are all about the same price. Personally I'd go for the F50 or G40 for the first flight.
Remember, we like pictures and or video!
Jerome
Funny thing is, I still can't find a single Photo of a Gabriel III.
I have to conclude that although a Drawing of this Anti-Ship Missile exists in one of my Books, it does infact not actually exist, similar to TLPs Alarm Kit that I built last Year. Other Versions of it are real, but TLP has taken liberty in producing their "Version" based on the same tiny amount of info as I was able to find. Why they did not choose to produce a Gabriel I, II, IV or V, we will never know. All we can assume with near certainty, is that the Gabriel III does not actually exist. It must have been a Propaganda Ploy at one time, and thus the Illustrations were drawn.
Found one for you... it is the air launched version.
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Gabriel Mk 3
My guess as to "why" would be that the Mk 1 is a bit too unstable to model as a rocket. The actual missile had control and guidance systems. Missiles tend to be "unstable" by nature to be more maneuverable. I wanted to clone the old Centuri Gabriel missile, but discovered a big difference in how it looked compared to the photos I've seen. Sim'ed it out and could not get it to acceptable stability without putting the forward fins too far back.
Jerome
Very Purdy! Good luck on the first flight.
Me and Daddyisabar been saying for quite some time now, TLP kits are a canvas. Unusual canvas' that you might not find everywhere. You can spend no time on them, build them exactly as specified, and they fly (they WILL if you FOLLOW the instructions). Or you spend a little time jazzing them up, which probably describes me, or have a ball like you have. But in general when people complain that the $30 kit comes with no decals, which is true they show them on the rocket, they don't know at the time that by the time they build it to their liking they'll have gotten their 30 bucks worth (assuming you like building).
JMO
Just ordered the Indigo. I'm going to change it's name to Cobalt, and the only Pieces I'm going to use from the TLP Kit is the Nose Cone and the Paper Hat Template, one of them will be absent in the final Product.
Sounds good. Make sure you post a link to the new thread here so we get notified!
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Sounds good. Make sure you post a link to the new thread here so we get notified!
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... I have realized that I can make a lighter Nose Cone and fly it on a 29 to 24mm Adapter with Composites from E20 up.
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