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- From: jsvrc@rc.rit.edu (J A Stephen Viggiano)
- Subject: Re: NARWIN IV Comments
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 22:12:03 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.175941.20002@ennews.eas.asu.edu> elder@enuxhb.eas.asu.edu (Greg Elder) writes:
-
- > NARWIN IV was a NAR regional contest sponsored by
- >the SSS in Phoenix, AZ. It was held this past weekend (Nov 14-15).
- >Sport flying was also held on both days, with a number of
- >high powered rockets being flown as well. The largest engines used
- >were in the J range.
-
- You've got my chops watering for the NSL. Will it be on the same field?
-
- > Ed LaCroix launched his "Flying Cone". (That's
- >what I call it, it looks like a big pointed nose cone. I think it is
- >actually a model of an old design for an ABM, though the actual name
- >escapes me.)
-
- Sounds like a Sprint. I made a few of these (in "not too [sic] scale" versions)
- many years back, from pictures in _Jane's_Weapons_of_Mass_Destruction_, or
- whatever it was called.
-
- > There were some
- >great models entered in the Ultra Scale (Giant Sport Scale?) event. A lot
- >of craftsmanship involved here. In this event, you scale up a small rocket
- >to a high powered version. There were giant versions of the Estes
- >Interceptor, Solar Sailer, Star Raider, and Der V-3.
-
- One of the things I cannot quite comprehend about large rockets is this
- business. Why make a large rocket that looks like a small one? It's better,
- IMHO, to make a large rocket that looks like an even bigger one! The Mega-Vega
- I saw about a week ago in Culpeper, VA, was pretty cool, even if the pods
- did fall off the fins. But it looked like a bigger rocket, even though Estes
- has made it in a couple of smaller sizes. Economy-sized versions of the
- Interceptor, Star Raider, and even the Solar Sailer sound pretty neat. But
- a mongo version of the "Fow-Dr-r-ry"? That's one that looked too big in the
- first place!
-
- John Viggiano, jsvrc@rc.rit.edu
- NAR 25615
-