04-10-2018, 12:28 AM
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As long as the three lugs are properly lined up, binding shouldn't be a problem. Some rockets had/have very long single (and multi-piece) launch lugs. If the IRIS-T's middle and rear hangers are the same size and shape as the forward one in the illustration, and if the scale-size hangers are wide enough to encompass 3/16" Maxi launch lugs, you could make each hanger out of two pieces of sheet balsa (suitably "dug-out" to accommodate the launch lug), which would be glued and pressed together. (If the common fractional-inch thicknesses of sheet balsa aren't close enough [so that a lot of sanding would be required], metric thickness sheet balsa selections [in millimeter and fractional millimeter thicknesses] are available.) Also:
If scale-thickness hangers wouldn't be wide enough to encompass 3/16" launch lugs, the "dug-outs" could serve as launch lugs (they could be hardened and "slickened" by applying thin, wicking CA or epoxy onto the "dug-out" walls).
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