05-11-2020, 07:48 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
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Wonderful! The documentation on the single-stage Malemute sounding rocket test vehicle is also welcome (with its Centuri Starfire-like boat-tail, it would probably make a good scale *and* parachute duration model). There was also, before they ran out of usable surplus Nike motors, a Nike-Malemute, although the Terrier-Malemute lacks nothing in the sleek aesthetics department, and:
When I was the volunteer range historian for PFRR (the Poker Flat Research Range ["Flat" is singular]: https://www.pfrr.alaska.edu/content/welcome-poker-flat ), I had a Malemute upper stage fin and a Nike fin, both from the range's "boneyard." (I have no idea if both came from the same--or *any*--Nike-Malemute round [the Nike fin could have been from any Nike-boosted vehicle], as the artifacts there cover many years of sounding rocket campaigns.)
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