Fliskits Nell (SC003) Basic Information.
Fliskits
MODEL NAME:
Nell Also known as: Nelle
NUMBER:
SC003
Introduced: 2010
Final Year:
Designer: Robert Goddard, Jim Flis
Type: Scale
Motor Mount: 1x18mm
Recovery: Parachute
Stages: 1
Length: 50.5"
Diameter: 2.217"
Span: 6.7"
Weight: 3.8 oz
Mfg. Description: The most historically significant rocket ever flown! (Fliskits 2010 Catalog)
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"It has often proved true that the dream of yesterday is the hope of today, and the reality of tomorrow" From Robert Goddard's valedictorian speech in 1904
This scale model of the worlds first successful liquid fueled rocket was designed, built and flown by Robert H. Goddard on March 16th, 1926 in Auburn, MA. You are looking at a model of the most historically significant rocket ever flown!
From Goddard's diary the next day: The first flight with a rocket using liquid propellants was made yesterday at Aunt Effies farm in Auburn. It looked almost magical as it rose... Some of the surprising things were the absence of smoke, the lack of a very loud roar, and smallness of the flame.
We have seen rockets bring the communications revolution to the world. We now forecast weather with greater accuracy than ever before. We've seen the surface of Mars, the clouds of Jupiter and the moons of Neptune. We've landed man on the moon have have lived in space for months at a time!
All thanks to the vision of a man thought by many to be foolish if not downright crazy.
From Goddards diary from his teen years:
"On the afternoon of October 19, 1899, I climbed a tall cherry tree and, armed with a saw which I still have, and a hatchet, started to trim the dead limbs from the cherry tree. It was one of the quiet, colorful afternoons of sheer beauty which we have in October in New England, and as I looked towards the fields at the east, I imagined how wonderful it would be to make some device which had even the possibility of ascending to Mars. I was a different boy when I descended the tree from when I ascended for existence at last seemed very purposive."
THAT was the spark. Read that entry again. You can almost hear the spark going off as he recounts that afternoon sitting in a cherry tree. It is the rare person who can recall the moment that spark strikes.
A moderately complex build, mainly because many of the steps are not common model rocket assembly steps, the Nell is not all that hard to assemble if you carefully read and follow the instructions.
One of two commemorative kits for NARCON 2010. FlisKits is proud to be able to bring this historic series to life in the form of these two kits (See the FlisKits L13). Further, a model of this kit was assembled and finished by Tony Vincent for donation to the Mott Linn, curator of the Goddard Exhibit at Clark University in Worcester, MA. Before the donation, this model will be flown at the VERY SAME SITE where Goddard flew the original back in 1926. This is a historic occasion honoring a historic event and a monumental mind. Special thanks go out to Tony for his excellent work on this build! (Fliskits 2012 Web Ad)
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