4 new Micro Maxx kits from Semroc

[BARGeezer]

Looks like 4 new MMX kits from Semroc coming soon to erockets: MX Blue Bird Zero, MX Hawk, MX Goblin, and MX Fat Boy. Woo hoo!

[blackshire]

Looks like 4 new MMX kits from Semroc coming soon to erockets: MX Blue Bird Zero, MX Hawk, MX Goblin, and MX Fat Boy. Woo hoo!If the Hawk is an MMX version of Estes' semi-scale Hawk missile kit (see: www.rocketreviews.com/estes-hawk-missile-mike-goss.html ), it could perhaps--at that size--be modified to be a tiny, "perpendicular-planes-symmetrical airplane" (as most guided missiles are, with their crossed wings or fins & canards) rear-motor boost-glider. If a "liner tube" (especially a "sleeve-fitting" one, although centering rings would work if this isn't the case) could be installed inside the body tube, forward ballast (with a hole in it, to let the ejection charge pass [lead strip stock might work well for this]) would move the model's CG forward for stable vertical flight. When the liner tube--with the motor in its rear--ejected out the back, it would tumble down (or a streamer could be attached), and the model's CG would be shifted rearward for a gliding descent, and:

I was inspired about this possibility by the following: I once read--it may have been here on YORF somewhere--about someone whose cloned Centuri "Lil' Hercules" (or maybe Semroc's "Retro-Repro" kit of it: www.google.com/search?ei=6xDSWqWUN6SA0wK006ioBQ&q=semroc+lil+hercules&oq=Semroc+Lil%27+Herc&gs_l=psy-ab.1.0.0i22i30k1.3793.11994.0.14307.16.16.0.0.0.0.146.1757.2j14.16.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..0.16.1757...0j0i131i46k1j46i131k1j0i131k1j0i67k1j0i10i67k1j0i10k1.0.OK5lrlnk1hw ) happened to be balanced just right, so that instead of tumbling, it glided rapidly, in a horizontal attitude, like the unpowered AGM-62 Walleye gliding missile (see: www.google.com/search?ei=EhXSWpXvJefh0gLOiq8Y&q=walleye+missile&oq=Walleye+mi&gs_l=psy-ab.1.1.0l10.255810.261089.0.263915.10.10.0.0.0.0.139.1091.1j9.10.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..0.10.1089...0i131k1j0i67k1j0i131i67k1j0i10k1j0i131i46k1j46i131k1.0.Ba60kYO26rg ).

[mwtoelle]

The MMX Hawk is a downscale of the Hawk glider produced by Semroc.

[blackshire]

The MMX Hawk is a downscale of the Hawk glider produced by Semroc.Ah--that sounds even more fun!