Apr 12, 2014
Project Nova
Concept Sport Scale by Ryan Coleman. Note the scale 6 motors. and clear fins. Again, somehow the animated image got un-animated.
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Project Nova
Concept Sport Scale by Ryan Coleman. Note the scale 6 motors. and clear fins. Again, somehow the animated image got un-animated.
Klingon Battlecruiser
Jim Bassham's Concept Scale entry. Should be showing takeoff animated gif but it isn't. Note his blue fins, which were suppose to be invisible when seen against the sky.
Finishing A Concept Scale Model
I literally did most of the building on this model 5 years ago. Then I got deterred because I couldn't decide how to do the clear plastic fins and I wasn't sure I'd done a good job on the stringers. Anyway, decided the second part didn't matter and I'd just do the fins. I bought plastic fin material from the clearance bin at TAP Plastics, along with the necessary glue. If it looks funny, I left most of the protective plastic covering on, I'll pull it off right before I turn it in for judging. I went for 6 fins. With plenty of noseweight (put in 5 years ago), it should fly straight.Â
I modeled it on the drawing of the Nova in the Spaceship Handbook (pictured). Some more information here:Â http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/nova.htm
The entire history of the N-1, from its origins for missions to Mars & Venus, to the abrupt change to “beat the Americans to the moon!"
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SpaceX kit seen in the wild
As indicated in this previous post, the SpaceX Falcon 9 and Dragon rocket kit has started shipping and I saw one in the wild. I didn't get a chance to examine it up close but it looked very nice and flew quite well. I managed to get a liftoff photo of someone's kit at the new year's eve DART launch. They didn't enter it in the contest, but it was still a cool rocket.