10-17-2019, 09:13 PM
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Apollo Nut
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Join Date: Dec 2006
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Originally Posted by tbzep
That will put it at about the same weight as the Alpha. After getting the parts, I couldn't fathom it ending up weighing more than a Bertha. I imagine my flights will be with a 1/2A3-2T. It's so tiny!
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I remember the first time seeing the series of US manned rockets from MR through the Saturn V modeled in 1/100 scale. That Mercury-Redstone was simply dwarfed by the Saturn V, and it really drove home the tremendous increase in vehicle size as payload requirements increased on our march to the moon.
Earl
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Earl L. Cagle, Jr.
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