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Old 01-17-2011, 11:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Chas Russell
Wow, Brian. The yellow ship looks alot like the Mars Lander from the Disney Mars rocket called the "Umbrella Ship", which was a solar ion powered spacecraft. It is documented in Jack Hagerty's "Spaceship Handbook". I am old enough to have seen the original Disney series based on some of Von Braun's concepts and have it on DVD when they released the Tomorrowland series.
I am concerned about the forward canard surface area as Rocksim is not foolproof. I am interested in the flight.

Chas

Yeah, me too!
I have just finished building the motor mount and will install it tomorrow. Sometime this week we fly! I will attempt to provide video.

Stay tuned...
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