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Summer with my X-15
If someone asks me how I have spent my summer I would tell them I have been with my Xs.
What I mean is I have spent all summer building my two X-15s. I started around the end of March building the first one. It's the white one. It was built to test out if it would fly and fly stable. I can tell you it flys good and stable. The second one was built with a baffle in it to help with the hot ejection gases. I painted it and tested out the markings to see how it would look. I will start test flights on it in the next week or so. These are not meant to be scale but what I call eye-ball-scale. When you look at the rocket you know it's the X-15. The shape tricks the eye into seeing the X-15 even though there's not a bit of these model scale. I have started building the third one. I will give it a lot nicer paint job and I need to add a few more markings. So far the first two have been fun to build although sometimes I have to take a day or two off from building to rest from them, and even on toughs days, I'm thinking how to do things to them. The rocket uses a BT-60 for the main body. The nose cone is a PNC-60 the one used in ESTES Curvilinear that is on sale now for $4.29. Pretty cheap nose cone. The length is 20.1/2 inches long. The canopy is vac-u-form from a canopy I made for this model. All balsa is 1/8 inch balsa. If everything tests out I plan on doing a build thread later on in the fall. Over the winter I may try to build a Delta-wing X-15. |
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You're right about tricking the eye. They sure look good!
Joe |
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Nice job
While I understand that you're not going for "scale" (at least, close scale), I would still recommend that you consider using the wedge shape for the vertical and ventral tails. This would not have to be "to scale" either, but I think would add a nice touch. Should be fairly easy to do.
My two cents. Which you didn't ask for. But a very nice job nonetheless. |
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