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Ze German okkupation of ze forum has begun. :D:D:D
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Ach! Mein Deutsch ist sehr sclecht! |
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You are a little rascal, Marcell!
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Greetings from Germany Manfred Under construction: Launch Pad 39A with Challenger STS-6 (1:144) |
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After all, it was worth trying.
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Greetings from Germany Manfred Under construction: Launch Pad 39A with Challenger STS-6 (1:144) |
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Hello everybody,
so friends, now it's getting serious slowly, because the final Flour application is getting closer. After I had unrigged the entire ET and freed it from all lines, I've first glued together the Intertank with the LO2 Tank, and then also have glued the IT together with the LH2 Tank and removed the SRB Support bar. Then there were some smaller places on the LH2 Tank, like the openings for the two Vertical Struts of the ET/Orbiter Aft Attachments and the LH2 Feedline, as well as for the ET/SRB Aft Attach Struts, which is done meanwhile. After that there were left only the lower parts of the LO2 Feedline Supports, which I've taped with 1 mm tape so that I didn't have to clean them from the glued flour in order to have uniform contact surfaces for gluing the Feedline. Then I still have taped the Manhole Covers, and the openings for the LH2 Recirculation Line and the Diagonal Strut were closed with toothpick tips. Since I will first flour the LH2 Tank, I then have completely taped the Intertank and the LO2 Tank, in order to be able to easily turn the ET when spray gluing and flouring. I will try out the holding device for the Aluminum rod tomorrow and then present it. Well, and these are one by one the necessary utensils for the upcoming Flour Action, the UHU Spray adhesive, the [color=blue ]Rice flour[/color], of which I've bought a new pack to be on the safe side and a new can of Vallejo Primer (white). Next I will think on and test the Holding jig, and then I only have to overcome the inhibition threshold for the Final countdown, of which I'm scared a little bit because nothing must go wrong. And therefore please keep all your fingers crossed, dear friends.
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Hello everybody,
and now to my new jig for the Flour coating of the completely glued ET, which inevitably had to look different than in my first test serieses, when I could horizontally insert the Holding rod with the dummy and let easily rotate around its axis both during the Spray gluing as well as during the Flour coating. For holding the skewered ET I have now chosen this modified arrangement, in which the holding rod is plugged into an upright standing cardboard. Since the aluminum rod has sagged too much when the ET was racked, I had to replace it by a more stable Bamboo rod. This gives the ET a better grip, whereby it can be easily turned with the left hand when spray gluing and flour coating. With this the first part of the ET's Flour coating should work well, I hope so. After priming then the second part can follow, for what the masking on the LO2 Tank is removed, after which the LH2 Tank can be floured and primed.
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Also, ich hab's verstanden..!
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That will spur Becky on!
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Greetings from Germany Manfred Under construction: Launch Pad 39A with Challenger STS-6 (1:144) |
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Hello everybody,
in view of the occasion, here is a little side leap to the meanwhile almost unrecognizable Launch Pad 39A, on which in the meantime Elon Musk with his company SpaceX is at home and had planned a historic thunderbolt yesterday. Source: wikipedia.org Certainly, many of you, like me, waited eagerly for the start of the SpaceX Demonstration Mission 2 (SpX-DM2) last night, but due to the unfavorable weather conditions it had to be canceled and rescheduled to Saturday. Here is an image of the crew, Douglas Hurley (left) und Robert Behnken. Source: wikipedia.org Matching to this here is an image of my friend Scott Phillips with the DM-2 Commander Douglas Hurley with one of his legendary Hardwood Shuttle Tribute Models after the last Shuttle Mission STS-135, in which Doug Hurley participated as a pilot of the Atlantis. In the image on the right is Michael D. Leinbach, the then Shuttle Launch Director of NASA, including STS-135. Source: Scott Phillips So far, Scott "Shuttleman" Phillips has created more than 450 such one-of-a-kind handcrafted wooden shuttle models from a wide variety of wood types to reflect and honor the execellence and legacy of the Shuttle Program, and had let many of them signed by the shuttle crews at the time, of which he is very proud.
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Greetings from Germany Manfred Under construction: Launch Pad 39A with Challenger STS-6 (1:144) Last edited by spacerunner; 05-29-2020 at 03:45 AM. |
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Certainly, many of you, like me, waited eagerly for the start of the SpaceX Demonstration Mission 2 (SpX-DM2) last night, but due to the unfavorable weather conditions it had to be canceled and rescheduled to Saturday.
Hmmm. Not here. Local media couldn't even be "bothered" enough to take the time to let us know what was going on. They just kept right on with their soap operas and other junk since only a rare few actually seem to care about space exploration these days. These guys pretty much sum up how I feel: Angry, confused and startled at and by their disinterest. Oh well.... |
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