John, Congratulations on your 1st Place victory in Giant Sport Scale @ NARAM-52 ! I am sure that NIKE-HERCULES is a "thing of beauty" ! Dave Fitch [Non-text...
Not aftr its first flight! - Jack Jack Hagerty ARA Press www.arapress.com ... From: Ez2cDave@... To: scaleroc@yahoogroups.com Subject: [Scaleroc] CONGRATS...
Jack, John told me about the instability problem and the damage, resulting in the crash. He said he was able to repair the damage and make a qualified flight...
That's correct. Chris Taylor has video and stills of both flights. They should be on NARAM Live by now, but I haven't actually checked. Jack Hagerty ARA Press ...
I'm in the beginning stages (pardon the pun) of building a 1:12 scale Mercury Redstone for my Level 1 cert. flight. I've been hunting the specs. on the Escape...
Everett here is some inspiration for you :-) video at the bottom of the page http://www.visualeditors.com/apple/2009/07/sundays-apollo-11-tribute-pages/ home...
I have a copy of the tower specs. in a tiff scan. Can you take a 18.6 mb download or should I change it to a jpg.? Just don't ask me where I found it. :>) I do...
http://spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu/akins_laws.html 1. Engineering is done with numbers. Analysis without numbers is only an opinion. 2. To design a spacecraft...
Any possibilty the Little Joe 1 escape towers the same used as any of the Merc-Redstones? Just last month I googled the LJ1 and came across drawings for the...
Some of them were. I think the last two flights (5A and 5B) had the final version. Everett, I've got plenty of Little Joe data so if Geoff's drawing doesn't...
Wow..a "scale project " for a Level 1 cert...! Here's what I did for the escape tower for my 1/12th "sport scale" fun-fly Mercury Little Joe.. I used the MRC...
You guys are fantastic. Thanks to the people here I have the info on the Escape Tower so that I can build it correctly. You guys are "steely-eyed missile men" ...
I don't know about making the capsule . . . Turn it on a lathe? But for level certs, the KISS principle always works well. Fly a 4" rocket, 3 feet long,...
Check out Everett's website and look at the Saturn V. She's a beauty. I can see some excellent (and bigger) models once he certs. Dale Windsor Sent from my...
That model is 1:12 not 1:15 From: scaleroc@yahoogroups.com [mailto:scaleroc@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of roketrik Sent: Friday, August 13, 2010 11:44 AM To:...
... Ach, you are right, I was going fom memory which at my age is never a good idea. You can find these kits online for about $60 & aftermarket decals are...
$60 at Tower Hobbies: http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXHWJ4&P=FR It would be a little challenging to get it to recover in one piece. -John...
Hi Dale, Glad to see you here. Through some of the people here, I was able to get the scale drawing of the escape tower that you and I talked about. So it will...
The 1/12 scale mercury capsule kit by MRC: Believe it or not.I got one cheaper on Ebay.some folks may be dumping models for whatever reason. BTW: the earlier...
Need some suggestions on modifying an Estes nose cone. I have a rounded tip plastic nose cone that I need to taper to a point. How would you achieve it? Jeff ...
You can do what The Launch Pad company does! They add a paper cone to the tip of the plastic cone. After you apply the putty to blend the two parts together,...
Soak the paper in thin CA after installation. ... From: John Boren <borenjohn@...> Sent: Monday, August 16, 2010 11:14 PM To: scaleroc@yahoogroups.com ...
You can use toothpick pointy end glued into a hole in the existing cone and epoxy putty (like Milliput or the stuff from Apogee--and there are some others out...
... Depends on the cone, and how much "point" you need to add. Years ago when I built my D-Region, I drilled out the tip that was too blunt, formed the paper...
Just a note on epoxy clays. Aves, the maker of the stuff Apogee sells (Fixit clay) also makes a more sculptable version called "Fixit Sculpt" and stuff called...
Josh & All, According to the JB WELD website, JB WELD is "machinable". http://www.jbweld.com Dave Fitch **************************************************** ...
... I can attest to this. I used it to form and machine some tooling to make rammed bentonite motor nozzles. It is not well suited for this purpose, lasting...
