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Falstaff (a *SCALE* egg-lofter!)
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The RAE (Royal Aircraft Establishment) Falstaff test vehicle (it was also apparently called "Stonechat" after the name of its rocket motor, see: www.astronautix.com/lvs/stoechat.htm and http://fuseurop.univ-perp.fr/falsta_e.htm ) was flown 8 times between 1969 and 1979 at the Woomera Range in Australia. Its bulbous payload fairing, which housed test payloads for the Chevaline (enhanced Polaris penetration aids system) that were tested during the suborbital flights, would make Scale and Sport Scale Falstaff models also able to double as egg-lofters.
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Falstaff ???
Not sure I'd want to name ANY aircraft for a CHEAP swampo-brew beer. If it flies anything like that slop tasted, it's a sure loser ! Just kidding....
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There's also an opera by that name....
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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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Here is a photo of a Falstaff pad I took.
Falstaff pad at Woomera, Australia. They begged me to launch from it. I didn't have large enough motors . . . . . yet. Solved. |
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Never heard of this program before, thanks for posting.
Very cool, looks like a Honest John with hormone issues.
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Other Stonechat-powered rockets
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An artist's illustration of the proposed Skylark 17 in a late-1990s British Aerospace Skylark Sounding Rockets marketing booklet that I have shows it with the same fins (and even the same paint scheme [white overall with two thin black circumferential stripes and a black spiral stripe between the other two]) as the operational Falstaff vehicles. The 36" constant-diameter Skylark 17 in the illustration has a rounded-tip, short conical nose cone like the ones in the Estes Yankee and Centuri X-24 Bug kits. I have e-mailed the successors to BAe and the RAE for more material on these Skylark variants and the Falstaff vehicles. The Skylark 8, 9, 16, and 17 would all have used the 36" diameter Stonechat rocket motor as the first stage, either with or without upper stages depending on the version. The Encyclopedia Astronautica article on the Skylark rocket series (see: www.astronautix.com/lvs/skylark.htm ) briefly describes the Skylark 8, 9, 16, and 17 thusly (the relevant article text is reproduced below): Version: Skylark 8. Skylark version with Stonechat booster and Waxwing second stage motor. Never built. Version: Skylark 9. Skylark single-stage version with Stonechat motor. This would make it similar to the Falstaff test version. Never built. Version: Skylark 16. Skylark version with shortened Stonechat motor. Never built. Version: Skylark 17. Skylark version with Stonechat booster and Mage 2 second stage motor. Never built.
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