10-24-2017, 01:41 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
Posts: 6,507
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Originally Posted by jdbectec
Let us know what you think of them when they arrive. I ordered 20 mm 15 mm and 30 mm and was very impressed with the quality
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I shall--thank you for mentioning this improvement in their body tubes! Their 35 mm nose cone, tubing, fin can, and clipped delta fin set would make a nice semi-scale MBDA Sea Ceptor missile (see: http://www.google.com/search?source...1.0.GQRBK6KLrpw ), and that 35 mm nose cone could also be used in a scale Black Arrow, Diamant BP4, or New Glenn satellite launch vehicle (see: http://www.google.com/search?q=blac...1.0.OjNccY5PDVk , http://www.google.com/search?q=Diam...1.0.mwC0653ZPNY , and http://www.google.com/search?q=new+...0.lSw oR6fg9Fs ). In addition:
Quest's parts can be used to make a 35 mm/20 mm Nike-Tomahawk (see: http://www.google.com/search?q=nike...1.0.UfRO4MHj8oA [they have a non-scale 35 mm/20 mm transition, but a scale one would be easy to make with a card stock cone and internal tubing and rings]). For a scale Nike-ASP, Nike-Cajun, or Nike-Apache with the 35 mm Nike first stage, a BT-5 ASP/Cajun/Apache upper stage is only 0.04 mm wider than the correct scale diameter. Plus, all of these Nike-boosted models could have both stages "live," and could use gap-staging (as well as Evan "Buzz" Nau's gap-staged, streamer [or parachute] recovery for the first stage). |