EXPjawa
Well-Known Member
Over the holiday break, at the same time I was building my 3X Hawkeye, I also built this roughly 2X Ram Jet upscale. Like with Hawkeye, the Ram Jet was one of my favorite rockets as a kid. A real neat look, good performance. So I bought the BT80 sized decals from Excelsior, broke out the calculator and started laying it out. Here's the final product.
It has a 24mm mount in a BT55 core tube, with a Bullpup nose cone. The BT80 segments are more like long ring tails than anything else. The fins are 1/8" balsa that have been papered for strength, but the overall rocket is pretty light for its size. It has an 18" nylon parachute. I took the opportunity to repaint and redecal my original Ram Jet to match. Obviously, yellow doesn't follow the Estes artwork from the facecard, but plain red is boring. Anyone paying attention will also notice that I placed the decals a little differently than Estes did, but I like the look of this much better. Overall, I think it came pretty damn well...
It has a 24mm mount in a BT55 core tube, with a Bullpup nose cone. The BT80 segments are more like long ring tails than anything else. The fins are 1/8" balsa that have been papered for strength, but the overall rocket is pretty light for its size. It has an 18" nylon parachute. I took the opportunity to repaint and redecal my original Ram Jet to match. Obviously, yellow doesn't follow the Estes artwork from the facecard, but plain red is boring. Anyone paying attention will also notice that I placed the decals a little differently than Estes did, but I like the look of this much better. Overall, I think it came pretty damn well...
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