05-01-2009, 04:55 PM
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frustrated aero
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Duncan, OK
Posts: 834
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Originally Posted by GregGleason
Correct! I ran across that fact a while back and gives a sense of scale when you compare the Mercury Redstone to the Saturn 1 series. According to Peter Alway the Redstone tanks were lengthened.
BTW, Wedge Oldham announced today that he is planning to build a full size Mercury Redstone "...with an intended launch date of sometime in 2011, to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Alan B. Shepard's flight."
Greg
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yeppers, reading "Stages to Saturn" right now, and when they described where the components were coming from inspired me to build this to the same scale as my Centuri Sat V. Once I have my .7 tubes, I may build a 1/100 semi scale MR for chuckles.
Seeing a 1/70 Sat 1B next to a 1/100 Sat V doesn't hit you the same way -- wish I could afford Apogee's 1/70th Sat V  |