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Yes and officially the A-2 was 29" longer, or 1.38" at this scale which would help reduce nose weight but then you'd need to extend or add in side tunnel spacers/extensions, Could also add tip pods experiments for the -1 and -3 birds as well..Thanks Frank. I thought as much -- Ken got both the 2x24mm cluster as well as the 1x29mm engine options so will fly lots of experimental variants. The full ventral was used with both engines but the white ablative scheme had a pretty narrow operating window.
Now Ken has started talking about the Ramjet (which I think only flew as a dummy)...
I guess only option is to build 3 or 4 models with the correct options and paint schemes
If you wanted to be nerdy you could use a fine line sharpie and drawn an outline of the left hand window shutters that were kept closed during the boost phase..
Yes the ramjet flew as a dummy only.
Here's a photo of a mach 6.33 flight configuration of A-2 without ablative that used the tanks and you can see the left hand round window doesn't have the shutter on it yet as it was only needed to prevent the ablative from clogging the window for landing.
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