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Old 03-27-2018, 09:20 AM
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Originally Posted by BARGeezer
Clicking on the above link to the paper model pdf takes you to Orbital's home page. Here's a current link:

https://www.orbitalatk.com/flight-s...er-Airplane.pdf
Thank you--those can change over time. I was just thinking--a "stick fuselage" OSC Pegasus glider (like the Estes Firefly parasite glider [the one whose wings and tail surfaces looked like--and may have been--from the Mini-Bomarc, making it a "SPEV boost-glider" if that was the case]) could fit closely atop a BT-20 fuselage with a Pegasus-like BT-20A nose cone, which could serve as a streamer-recovered booster. (A BT-50 booster with the similar-looking stubby BT-50 nose cone [the one used in the Estes Meanie kit, among others] could be used for a larger-scale Pegasus boost-glider model of this type; even larger ones could use the Big Bertha's BT-60 tubing and nose cone, or the Quest "Big Betty" [35 mm diameter, I think] tubing and nose cone.) Also:

If necessary for sufficient stability during boost, an extra, clear plastic ventral tail fin (for an original Pegasus model) or clear plastic "extensions" of the normal three Pegasus XL tail fins (which are evenly spaced) could be used. Such semi-scale models of the AQM-37 Jayhawk and AQM-81 Firebolt could be built the same way.
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