02-22-2020, 01:39 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
Posts: 6,507
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Originally Posted by GuyNoir
The last 1/72 scale F-104 conversion I did worked fine and A10-3T motors, but it was awfully hard to get enough parachute into it to properly cushion the landing given the nose weight required to make it stable. I was always sweating whether the wings or stabilizer would be broken on landing.
Good luck!
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Thank you. Hmmm...an aluminized Mylar parachute, of the kind used in competition models (these are thin-gauge, to enable them to fit in small storage volumes inside such BT-20/ST-7 [and BT-5/ST-5, and T15 <15 mm>] size competition models), might be perfect for this PMC application, too.
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Originally Posted by ghrocketman
Remember, the "C" in PMC stands for CRASHER.
Nothing like a good PMC POWR-PRANGG.
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If I build and fly one of my 1/144 scale (for MicroMaxx power) and/or 1/72 scale (for 13 mm mini motor power) F-104 kits as a PMC model rocket (or rockets), I'll build it/them in "Clean" configuration (with no missiles, bombs, or fuel tanks under the wings' and/or the fuselage centerline's hardpoints, and [of course] with the landing gear and the speed brakes retracted--the only possible exception might be the wingtip fuel tanks). |