08-03-2020, 04:05 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
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Originally Posted by Fuse Eh!
What a fascinating thread about the Black Brant sounding rocket program! Special thanks to Blackshire for the original post, links and info; Dave for the great BB pics; and a tip of the toque to Brad Gordanier of Polyus Studios for putting together such a great retrospective video!
Apropros of the ending of the video, perhaps we can direct our scale and livery questions about the Black Brant to the Canadian Wildlife Service?  |
Also--speaking of scale kit-bashing--the Estes Black Brant III kit (which uses a BT-50 body tube) can be kit-bashed into the two-stage Black Brant IV (BT-60 tubing is the correct scale diameter for such a Black Brant IV first stage--CANAROC's Black Brant III, IV, and V kits used BT-50 and/or BT-60 body tubes). At that scale, the Black Brant IV first stage could easily be set up to utilize Evan "Buzz" Nau's gap-staged booster recovery techniques (I've included his September/October 1997 "Sport Rocketry" article about them, which is attached below [it's a PDF]). |