Thanks to Neal Miller we now have instructions and templates for the MPC Astrobee-D. You'll find the fin template with measurements on the last page of the instructions.

https://www.oldrocketplans.com/mpc/..._Astrobee-D.pdf

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Some Scale Data . . .

Dave F.

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Dave F.

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Thank you--some of those may be ones Aerojet sent to me years ago; regardless of how they got to you, though, thank you for posting them here! Also:

A few Orion sounding rockets flew with Astrobee-D nose cones and payload cylinders (here's a picture of one: https://www.alamy.com/stock-image-o...p%3d0%26pl %3d ). The University of Alaska Fairbanks's Student Rocket Program also flew one of those Orion-with-Astrobee-D-payload vehicles, several years ago. But:

I take that back, about the UAF's Orion; it had a custom-made (by the Student Rocket Program), fiberglass conical nose cone that looked like a Black Brant III nose cone, but its--and its payload cylinder's--diameter looked the same as that of the Astrobee-D (6 inches, or else quite close to that). I have, however, seen a photograph of an Orion with a very long (about as long as, or even longer than, the Orion's HAWK rocket motor), 6" diameter payload cylinder, topped by an Astrobee-D 5:1 tangent ogive nose. (I don't think it flew at Poker Flat, but at Wallops, Esrange in Sweden, or Andøya in Norway; unfortunately, pictures of such "chimera" sounding rockets aren't indexed by "Orion sounding rocket with Astrobee-D payload section" online--one comes across them by chance.)

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Thanks, Neil!

What is the length of each of the MPC T-15 (0.591 in.) dia. main body tube and payload sections please? The published overall length for the MPC Astrobee-D model is 15.6 inches.

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Main tube 10 and 7/8ths. Payload tube is 1 and 3/16ths.

Earl

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Thanks, Earl!

Kind regards,
Jeff Jenkins
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Measured off an unbuilt kit.

The thing I don't have are the decals. I have one opened kit and two sealed. This particular mini roc is one of the harder to come by.

Earl

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Remember, MPC kits--including their Miniroc kits that were made with the 15 mm tubing (Quest has it) and used their 13 mm Minijet motors--often had "nominal length" body tubes, varying by 3/16" or so above or below the listed length. It's no big deal for non-scale sport models, but it *does* matter for Sport Scale--and especially measured Scale--models, of course.

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The AVI sale catalog lists the MPC Miniroc Astrobee-D (see: http://www.ninfinger.org/rockets/nostalgia/74avi07.html ) kit's scale as being 1:10.152, with a total length of 15.8" (*or* 15.6"--the small descriptive text is a bit 'grainy,' but it looks like 15.6" to me).

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