08-02-2010, 07:49 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 blackshire
Thank you, David! That would be "crowded" for a 'chute. :-) Since Semroc lists that tube length as 5.5", I wonder if Centuri may have changed the length sometime during the MX-774 kit's time in production? I vaguely recall reading somewhere (maybe in one of Peter Alway's books or articles) that the full-scale MX-774 was built in two different lengths.
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Yes, in ROTW, the third flight incorportated a 34" long instrument compartment, which at 1/33 scale, would be about 1" long.
The MX-774 has a rounded (ogive?) boattail that starts above the fins. Centuri changed this to a straight body with a conical (straight) boattail.
BTW the G. Harry Stine drawings available from NASM (link above somewhere) are excellent with interesting details (antennas, vents, etc). |