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Old 12-12-2016, 11:20 PM
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Thanks for the replies.

The only one I’ve found online was Vol. 12 #4, for Apollo-17



But that was very fitting, because Sunday, 44 years later, I Followed Apollo 17 with a flight of my own model, to the minute! And that is why I was asking about Estes' Follow Apollo promotion here.


But unlike the original Follow Apollo, I didn’t fly the day the mission launched.


Because Sunday the 11th was not the 44th anniversary of the launch.


Here’s my re-creation of what Apollo-17 did on December 11th, 1972:




“Challenger” with Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt, landed at 2:55 PM EST. This model’s first takeoff was before 2:55 PM EST, and last landing was after 2:55, so it was flying (or maybe just landed) at 2:55). It was too cold to mess around with trying to land at exactly 2:55, and I wanted to try a few landings on the same battery so as to try to get some good landing footage “kicking up some dust” (yeah, a quote from Apollo-11, but all the landings dealt with the dust). And hey, one of those landings might have been at 2:55.

Here it is higher up:


Here is a link to a YouTube video of the Apollo-17 anniversary model flights/landings:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqrBkXjkWgY

The 1/16 scale model, which I’ve posted about elsewhere, is a “work in progress”, getting more accurate over time. A recent upgrade was a facelift for the crude Ascent Stage, till the pretty Ascent stage is done up. Have a mold curing for casting more accurate landing pads.

More info on the model here: http://tinyurl.com/LunarModuleQuad






Next "Follow Apollo" Lunar Landing I'll try for, weather permitting, will be Feb 5th, Apollo 14.
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