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X-37B scale B/G
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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I've not been able to find any good 3-Views with cross sections of this model.
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The flight test article is at the Space Museum in Alamogordo. You can walk up, touch it, measure it, whatever. It's sitting in a small hanger on a sled; nothing an adult can't reach.
And John's right; it does have some funky cross sections.
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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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Any progress on this?
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You can take a look here, he has done an RC drop version of the X-40, has some plans/drawings.
http://www.spacecraftreplicas.com/x-37-x-40 I think he found that his pitch was a bit oversensitive and mixing flaps helped tame it somewhat. I did a 45" long version that I tried as rc rocket glider, but I decided to try only movable V tail surfaces, Boost was fine, but I never got sufficient control of pitch or roll on glide, I think due to blanking of the tail surfaces due to the wing placement. In any case, I turned the forward fuselage/wing into a Buran shuttle. I was curious if the X-37B would fly with just elevons but I haven't gotten back to doing another one. Here is one photo I have before I did the front canopy area sheeting...and the one in Alamagordo... Frank Last edited by burkefj : 06-19-2015 at 11:21 AM. |
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