06-21-2010, 12:11 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
Posts: 6,507
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Falstaff (a *SCALE* egg-lofter!)
Hello All,
The RAE (Royal Aircraft Establishment) Falstaff test vehicle (it was also apparently called "Stonechat" after the name of its rocket motor, see: www.astronautix.com/lvs/stoechat.htm and http://fuseurop.univ-perp.fr/falsta_e.htm ) was flown 8 times between 1969 and 1979 at the Woomera Range in Australia. Its bulbous payload fairing, which housed test payloads for the Chevaline (enhanced Polaris penetration aids system) that were tested during the suborbital flights, would make Scale and Sport Scale Falstaff models also able to double as egg-lofters.
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