Hello All,

I have found X-37B plastic model kits (see: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en...0.0.Xh2BVaFDJF0 ), made by Dragon and possibly other firms. They are also for sale on eBay www.ebay.com . A skinned-foam version (which could be made by using a completed X-37B kit to create a vented RTV rubber mold, into which expanding polyurethane foam would be injected from the aerosol can) could be flown as a parasite boost-glider. A larger version could be made (hint, hint, Estes and Quest...) in a manner similar to the Estes foam Space Shuttle; with fins or a plastic fin unit on the rear end of the rear-ejection, forward-ballasted, parachute-recovered motor pod, such a model would have excellent stability during the rocket-powered ascent and coasting phases of flight.

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