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Flight Rating: Contributed by Gary Sinclair   Brief:
PML's Little Lunar Express is a well known HPR kit which has a 50's SciFi look. Recovery is via parachute which is ejected from the airframe using a PML piston.
Read the rest of the review ... | Today's Featured FlyerSascha Grant AKA: Krusty Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Certification Level: Tripoli L2 Club Memberships: MMRG, Tripoli, Rocketry Victoria (TRA 109) Favorite Rockets: Orbital Decay Personal Home Page: http://www.ibuildrockets.com/ Club Home Page: http://www.tripoli.org.au/ Visit Sascha Grant's Visit the RocketReviews.com Who's Who directory. | Today's Featured Photo
2013_06_01_10_01-002.jpg Photo by Roger Smith | Featured Rocketry Blog PostsModel Rocket Building: ASP D Region Tomahawk Build, Part 1, Parts I've always like the D Region Tomahawk, a clean looking sounding rocket. The first on I put together was the old Competition Model Rocket version. I remember (unsuccessfully) trying to emboss rivets on the upper bands. This Aerospace Specialty Products kit should be much easier. Smaller with less detail, still capturing the feel of the real thing. Parts are of great quality. My past experience with ASP kits have been very good. The ASP 18mm Corporal was a favorite build. That craft stick is used to apply glue inside the tube for the engine block. Parts of interest: The yellow engine block ...
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Model Rocket Building: Estes Apollo Little Joe II, Background Here's the Little Joe I remembered wanting. The BIG 1/45 Scale Little Joe II from the 1969 Centuri catalog. To see the catalog, CLICK HERE But $12.95? All I could afford was the smaller 1/100th scale Little Joe II. The fin fairings and some trim was vacuum formed. They were lightweight but fragile, much like the Centuri Saturn V fins and fairings incorporated into the Estes re-issue Saturn V kits. The "metalized" wrap was pre-installed at the factory. To see the original Centuri instructions: CLICK HERE The body and capsule came down separately on two 24" parachutes. A three engine cluster. ...
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Model Rocket Building: Estes STM-012 Kitbash to the B32-M Spike, Background Well, I thought it might work! I bought two Estes STM-012 kits on Ebay with the hopes of kit-bashing one of them into an AMRAAM. It never even occurred to me that the STM-012 model would have three through-the-wall fins. The AMRAAM has two sets of four fins. I would have to buy a couple new lengths of BT-60 to do the conversion. That, and the STM-012 nose cone was long! So the kits sat for a few months with me wondering what to do with them. Then I remembered this design from Madcow: The AGM-33 Pike . I've always like the looks of this one, I did the instructions for their 1.6" diameter kit. ...
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Model Rocket Building: Corner Chip Fill - TIP
Well, we've all been there - the balsa grain runs in such a way that the trailing edge tip can break off. If the tip break is small you can fill it. Sand off some balsa dust from some scrap balsa. Don't sneeze. Apply some yellow wood glue to the broken corner. Use wood glue for this, yellow glue can be easily sanded. Press the glued corner into the balsa dust pile from all sides. Let the balsa dust and glue dry. Note in the inset picture that the dust and glue is a little larger than the chip area.
Here's the same filled corner after filling and sanding to surface. Not perfect, but ...
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Rocket Dungeon: Mini Higgs build, part 1I dug into the build at the very best place to start - at the very beginning, which in this case is the motor mount. This is not so different than any other LPR mount. It includes rings (squares in this case), a motor clip, motor block, etc. The mount also has two normal round rings to hold the clip securely in place. The Kevlar leader is attached behind the forward square centering ring. Unlike any kit I've had, it also includes a section of shrink tube to protect the lower several inches of the Kevlar. I pretty much built this stock. If I want to put a bigger motor in one, I will have to ...
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