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![]() It all sounds great to me. Let us know Carl when you have all the details !
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![]() That sounds like a really cool idea, Carl, and a real fun contest. Makes me wish I had some design skills.
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Jeff Taylor MASA Section 576 NAR 87148 L1 SAM 160 |
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![]() I may not have time to design at the moment but sign me up for two of each -Vega, Excalibur, and whatever wins. By the way, I love cutting tube lengthwise...
Will you be trading the Excalibur's solid balsa crew compartment for a folded sheet version? And what was BFS-80, 1/4 inch?
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Plan is for 1/4" laser cut.
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Carl McLawhorn NAR#4717 L2 semroc.com |
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You are in the ballpark. Was going to be Starship Lee Correy. Sheryl said too long. ![]()
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Carl McLawhorn NAR#4717 L2 semroc.com |
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![]() When I saw the name Stareship Correy my first thought was of G. Harry Stine's non deplume. I have a paperback copy of his "Space Doctor", copyright 1981 that I found in a library book sale. My "to read" list is as long as the kit building quque.
Chas
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Charles Russell, MSgt,USAF (ret.) NAR 9790, Lvl 1 SAM "Balls Three" |
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![]() The SS Fafnir was, technically, not a starship --- she was an interplanetary cargo vessel. The heroes of GHS's Starship Through Space, Walt & Don, rode her between Mars and Earth. Once on Earth, they joined the ranks of "Project Thunderbird", man's first attempt to build a true intersteller ship. The Vittoria, the actual starship of said story, wouldn't make much of a model rocket --- she was shaped, according to GHS's description, like an oblate spheroid. The model I have of her (much like a quasi-triangular flying saucer) would seem to confirm that thinking. ![]() The GHS vehicle I've wanted to build for a number of years is the SS Latona, from "Rocket Man" --- a beautiful 50's "cigar shape with delta wings and front canards" --- just haven't had time. Somehow, this design was overlooked in The Spaceship Handbook (or they just ran out of space to include her)...which is sad, I think she's got ever so much more beautiful lines than the SS Athena from "The Day the Rocket Blew Up", which did make it into the Handbook. ![]() Much looking forward to these releases, Carl! You might want to consider offering a kit of the DOM Starship Excalibur, too --- that's a beautiful bird, too!
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Dean Fox NAR #53946SR ---- "Wherever you go, there you are" ![]() |
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PLEASE tell me you are talking about the REAL 'Startship Enterprise' (based on Estes Free Plan # 55) and not that watered down kit with the same name..... Buzz McD.
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Buzz McD. Avid rocketeer since 1967. NAR 13559 / L2 |
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Dean - reread the first post in the thread. It's coming (and even though I've assembled most of the bits to clone one, mostly from Semroc, I'm really looking forward to it).
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Bernard Cawley NAR 89040 L1 - Life Member SAM 0061 AMA 42160 KG7AIE |
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Buzz, You scared me! We could not afford the license for the Enterprise. It is the P55 version that is in the works.
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Carl McLawhorn NAR#4717 L2 semroc.com |
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