I was @ a girl scout 'camporee' at the county fair ground back in the "good years" of the space shuttle & met a NASA educator who put a 'bug in my bonnet' - He asked me if I could come up with a complete set of Estes Scale models of all of the manned launch vehicles. The longer I thought about it, the more I wanted these 'birds' at a constant scale of 1/100. Only trouble was, doing a Shuttle at 1/100 would REALLY stretch the skills. Having built & flown the 'E' shuttle before the real thing lifted off, I thought, I CAN do this.

The Mercury & Gemini program rockets were done by Neubauer Rockets - Their sport scale series. Nicely done kits! Got them all - Just waiting for build time...

As for the Shuttle, George Gassaway tipped me off to a styrofoam 'catapult' shuttle glider at close to 1/100. He suggested if I was going with R/C recovery to use only half the rudder height for control surface. The tid-bits are being collected, soon to be assembled!

I say all that to say, I am a huge fan of scale!