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Old 10-24-2017, 11:08 PM
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Originally Posted by hcmbanjo
Here's a NIke Tomahawk I made from Quest parts based on the AVI Nike Tomahawk.
I don't know if that AVI kit was ever released.

http://modelrocketbuilding.blogspot...Nike%20Tomahawk

I wouldn't call the cardstock transition "easy", but it can be done.
Thank you for posting this! A duplicate of your card stock interstage, if extended "to a point" and ballasted, could also--if the subtended angles are the same--serve as the 'stubby cone' nose of the prototype Nike-Smoke (the long conical nose of the operational version was found to about double the rocket's altitude due to its lower supersonic drag; both variants are covered in Peter Alway's book "Rockets of the World"), and:

I share your doubts as to whether the AVI Astroport Nike-Tomahawk, which was advertised, ever made it to production as a kit. Today, its Nike-to-Tomahawk interstage (as well as a Nike-to-ASP, Cajun, or Apache interstage) could be 3D printed in different types of plastic, including ABS plastic. Such "after-market, detail parts" could be made by Aerobotix (at Shapeways) and/or by Boyce Aerospace hobbies (I have 3D printed model rockets and rocket parts made by both, which are very good!).
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