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Gauchito scale data (link)
Hello All,
I just tried the website URL for Pablo de Leon & Associates that's included in the Estes Gauchito kit instructions, and it's up (see: http://www.pablodeleon.com/ )! It's in Spanish, but there is a "Click here [an American flag] for English" version of the site. A couple of the pages are available only in Spanish, but that's easily remedied by copying-and-pasting their text into FreeTranslation.com www.freetranslation.com , which can translate just about any language into any other language. The Gauchito site contains technical data, illustrations, and photographs of a large-scale (it looks like half-scale or so) Gauchito mockup. Also: The Gauchito project may even be continuing, because its listed uses include suborbital experiments (using it as a manned or unmanned sounding rocket with recoverable payloads) as well as space tourism, and the website is copyrighted up to 2012. Also, the firm isn't a "one-project one," because Pablo de Leon & Associates have designed small satellites and Shuttle payloads that have flown, and they maintain an office at Cape Canaveral. I hope this information will be helpful.
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Or for users of Google Chrome, it'll offer to translate the pages for you. Quote:
Unfortunately the page's text (English version) appears to be unchanged from December 2005: http://wayback.archive.org/web/2005...m/index_en.html so I doubt the 2012 date on the web site is very meaningful as far as currency of its information. Quote:
Interesting stuff, thanks!
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That's good to know--Thank You. (I'm still using an old Windows XP machine; when I get my new Acer computer hooked up and running, I'll be able to use Google Chrome.) Pablo de Leon is still active, so it's possible that Gauchito--or a newer development of it--may fly in the future. Argentina is developing a liquid propellant satellite launch vehicle called Tronador II ("Thunderer II"), so their rocket technology is advancing, if rather slowly (they've built and flown a few indigenously-designed solid propellant sounding rockets with good success). Gauchito's LOX/polymer hybrid rocket propulsion system and rocket/capsule (rather than winged) vehicle configuration would likely be the safest.
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Black Shire--Draft horse in human form, model rocketeer, occasional mystic, and writer, see: http://www.lulu.com/content/paperba...an-form/8075185 http://www.lulu.com/product/cd/what...of-2%29/6122050 http://www.lulu.com/product/cd/what...of-2%29/6126511 All of my book proceeds go to the Northcote Heavy Horse Centre www.northcotehorses.com. NAR #54895 SR |
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Interesting to hear that it may still be an applicable design. I have an old Estes X-Prize kit of the rocket that I was going to kit bash into a Congreve (I mean, just look at that nosecone!), but maybe I'll hold off on that idea for a little while longer.
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The Congreve rockets I've seen have either a much longer nose cone than the Gauchito's (looks like about 2.3:1), or a flat or bulb shaped nose:
(large version) If I were going to build a conical-nose Congreve I'd probably roll my own nose cone out of cardstock and stiffen with CA, or maybe a BNC60C (e.g. from Balsa Machining) would be close enough. Hey, I never knew Congreve invented parachute recovery. Cool. Added: Found a 1:1 papercraft Congreve model .
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Black Shire--Draft horse in human form, model rocketeer, occasional mystic, and writer, see: http://www.lulu.com/content/paperba...an-form/8075185 http://www.lulu.com/product/cd/what...of-2%29/6122050 http://www.lulu.com/product/cd/what...of-2%29/6126511 All of my book proceeds go to the Northcote Heavy Horse Centre www.northcotehorses.com. NAR #54895 SR |
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