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Art of Scale Rocketry Vostok
from Peter Alway's Art of Scale Rocketry...
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I can hardly wait for the scan of "The Art of Scale Model Rocketry" to be put up on the NAR's website. I help a teacher in the isolated community of Eagle, Alaska who uses model rocketry in her students' STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) classes, and she prefers creative rather than "put flap A into slot B" projects (in model rocketry, electronics, and amateur radio). Being able to do such creative scale projects would be just the sort of student activity she prefers, and being able to use model rocketry to also teach history would be an added bonus!
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The "fun scale Soyuz" was something from a kitbash session at model rocket convention. It was just a crude BT-50 model with strapons rolled from the kit stuffer or instructions. I will confess that I never built the exact Vostok in "Art of Scale." I did build a Soyuz along the same lines at the same scale, but simplified it down to a Vostok for the book. Peter Alway |
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That--while I find it interesting from an historical standpoint (I like learning the stories behind how and why my favorite books were written and compiled as they were)--is certainly no misdeed. There's no question that your particular Vostok scale model, if built "by your book," will fly stably. The main thing is that you devised realistic-looking, yet not dauntingly difficult to build, booster/sustainer attach trusses and the "open-air, geodetic basket-weave" interstage framework. Using "Rockets of the World" or "Twelve Soviet Missiles of the Cold War," history-minded (and/or less bold) builders could use your Vostok model plans to build even simpler R-7 Semyorka-based scale models--Sputnik I, Sputnik II, Sputnik III, or the various versions of the R-7 ICBM itself.
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I believe I had got a plan for a Vostok along those lines printied in Sport Rocketry many years ago. I'll have to see if I can locate it. Peter Alway |
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Black Shire--Draft horse in human form, model rocketeer, occasional mystic, and writer, see: http://www.lulu.com/content/paperba...an-form/8075185 http://www.lulu.com/product/cd/what...of-2%29/6122050 http://www.lulu.com/product/cd/what...of-2%29/6126511 All of my book proceeds go to the Northcote Heavy Horse Centre www.northcotehorses.com. NAR #54895 SR |
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