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I was sent this prototype kit by one of my rocket glider customers and I told him I'd do a build thread and try to get the word out in case people were interested.
This is a BT-60 based kit with a 24mm motor mounted in the main body and parachute recovery.
This will be my first time papering fins as well since normally I would just use basswood for a model this size if it needed strength, but I'll do it his way.
The kit is fairly scale, but the canards are not in the correct location on the cone as designed, he wasn't sure why the designer did this, whether for CG or just an incorrect drawing, but I'm going to replace the papered balsa fins with a single .030 styrene canard slotted through the nose cone using a dremel and ca'd in place. I'll make a new openrocket file accordingly. Also the conduit/access panel underneath the turbojet should be flatter on the bottom, not as rounded.
The kit came with some nice features, a crimped on cable shock cord anchor, nylon chute with double swivels, clay nose weight(I'll use lead bb's since it is easier to install), a metal screw on motor retainer and a thrust ring, clear printed waterslide decals, plastic nose cone, a laser cut stand for attaching the wings straight, 3 3-d printed cones for the turbojet and tail cone, two small plastic cones for the turbojet intakes, and many pages of instructions. Nice 1/8" balsa for the fins which must be hand cut using templates provided.
I'll also use rail buttons instead of launch lugs for my model, mounted on the side of the turbojet pod.
Designed by Richard Dean and kitted by him and Rick Ely. Contact Rick at [email protected] if you have questions I haven't answered, like cost and how to get one.
This is a BT-60 based kit with a 24mm motor mounted in the main body and parachute recovery.
This will be my first time papering fins as well since normally I would just use basswood for a model this size if it needed strength, but I'll do it his way.
The kit is fairly scale, but the canards are not in the correct location on the cone as designed, he wasn't sure why the designer did this, whether for CG or just an incorrect drawing, but I'm going to replace the papered balsa fins with a single .030 styrene canard slotted through the nose cone using a dremel and ca'd in place. I'll make a new openrocket file accordingly. Also the conduit/access panel underneath the turbojet should be flatter on the bottom, not as rounded.
The kit came with some nice features, a crimped on cable shock cord anchor, nylon chute with double swivels, clay nose weight(I'll use lead bb's since it is easier to install), a metal screw on motor retainer and a thrust ring, clear printed waterslide decals, plastic nose cone, a laser cut stand for attaching the wings straight, 3 3-d printed cones for the turbojet and tail cone, two small plastic cones for the turbojet intakes, and many pages of instructions. Nice 1/8" balsa for the fins which must be hand cut using templates provided.
I'll also use rail buttons instead of launch lugs for my model, mounted on the side of the turbojet pod.
Designed by Richard Dean and kitted by him and Rick Ely. Contact Rick at [email protected] if you have questions I haven't answered, like cost and how to get one.
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