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Old 07-18-2009, 10:56 AM
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Finished up the FG Cessna 152 - laying out a few more Fiddler's Green products (they make a relaxing change up from space craft).

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ARES I classroom project, decided to use tabs on the top of the SRB. To connect you fold them down inside the cylinder before shoving in the interstage cone. That provides enough tension and surface area for a glue stick to adhere. Larger tabs on the top/bottom of the second stage accomplish the same thing and the upper adapter has a gentle enough slope to also work with glue stick.

If you'd like a copy of the simplest ARES (test build/comments appreciated) drop me a note.

Working on four more rocket gardens in response to not-so-subtle hints from the local teachers. Today's lesson - when building one of Ton's superb designs that started at 1:48 scale - going down to 1:200 is a challenge. Mercury Redstone from Delta 7, Atlas from Precision Paper via the wayback machine, and the Gemini Titan is reduced from Ton's 1:96 (which is a reduction of his 1:48 ). 1:200 gives you a "reasonable" classroom sized Saturn V / ARES V-Direct - 22-23". But, Mercury & Gemini come out real small.

Yogi's builds - to boldy glue, where ...-p7180468.jpg

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