First off, Peter Alway books and booklets are perfect for how I draw. As shown above all that is needed is the Centerline Length, Stationing & Fuselage Diameter.

The history of the particular rocket missile in Peter's books/booklets are always easy to read and enjoyable to the max!

This Rocket/Missile has 4-wings with wingtip canisters on a couple. The canisters held a fine wire that deployed allowing the fighter pilot controlling the missile to aim it once it was launched. The missile had a roll rate to help effect an accurate path even with design/build flaws.

The design 1944 early 1945, 100 tests were performed, using a FW190, to prove it worked.

In prior military days, trained on the TOW missile, works on the same idea of a wire following the missile while taking commands from the aiming device.

Since all the pieces and parts are ready, will use the offset command in ACAD as well as Copy & Paste commands.

In the screen shot below the STA is shown using the cm instead of inches. Lot easier to see the short numbers. Offset command was used to offset the cyan blue lines to the proper STA. The circles have been copy & pasted to the right STA. Final Step was to use the Properties box to size them correctly. Note in photo that the circle at STA 37cm is highlighted.

Look at the left in the properties box, find the Diameter value. This is where typing in the value gives the correct diameter. You can also see other values such as area, radius, and circumference.

Circumference is how long a piece of paper needs to be to create a tube this diameter. Mathematically this is found using Pi.

Next step wil show how to connect the "dots" using a polyline.

Mike

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