03-27-2015, 08:23 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
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Originally Posted by Ironnerd
One of the guys in our Section flew something very similar with the entire shuttle stack. The glider flew parasite style, and glided back pretty nicely - it was a hair out of trim in pitch, but it still looked cool.
One thing about those foam glider shuttles is that the wings are HUGE.
Thanks for the post. I may have to get one.
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You're welcome--I just happened to find it while looking at their selection of boomerangs. I don't mind somewhat "exaggerated" (for better glide performance) wings on such gliders. Using one of M. Dean Black's finless rocket stabilization methods (particularly the second one *here*--see "Finless Rockets Using Engine-Driven Gas-Dynamic Stabilization" by M. Dean Black [Apogee Components Peak of Flight newsletter, Issue #379, December 2, 2014: http://www.apogeerockets.com/educat...wsletter379.pdf ]), a full-stack Shuttle model using the foam glider could fly stably with *no* clear plastic fins (or fins of any kind) at all! |