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blackshire 01-03-2014 10:47 PM

Wallis Rigby's flying paper models
 
Hello All,

I've found an article on paper modeling that has model rocketry (particularly boost-glider) ramifications:

Here is an interesting--and useful--article: "Making Cut-out Models for Jetex Power" by Wallis Rigby (see: http://www.jetex.org/archive/article-rigby-pw.html ). This article also lists paper modeling books that Mr. Rigby wrote on building such models of trains, planes, and boats (they include plans); he used paper and Bristol board. Mr. Rigby was a professional paper model designer and builder, and most of his paper models, such as airplanes and boats, were *functional*, with some of his paper planes (such as the semi-monocoque structure "Jetex Javelin" [illustrated in the above-linked article]) and paper boats even using Jetex power!

Ironnerd 01-03-2014 11:04 PM

Dude! Thanks for that. Good read, and those models were so sweet.

blackshire 01-03-2014 11:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Ironnerd
Dude! Thanks for that. Good read, and those models were so sweet.
You're most welcome! Your posting about your lifting body fleet inspired me to post the article about Wallis Rigby. I love his aesthetic sense. His semi-monocoque paper and bristol board construction method (a load-bearing paper outer skin with a few internal bracing elements, which his "Jetex Javelin" model plane utilized) might also work for the X-24 "Bug"- and HL-20-type lifting bodies, increasing their strength and stiffness with little added weight.

Ironnerd 01-04-2014 08:31 AM

You had to go there, didn't you? :)

I have been wanting to make a rocket version of the Martin-Marietta X-24B or the Sierra Nevada Company's Dream Chaser. This may give me something to ponder.

I figure the X-24B will have the best glide of the two.

I also want to "rocketize" my Facetmobile, which is a really great little lifting body.
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blackshire 01-04-2014 09:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Ironnerd
You had to go there, didn't you? :)

I have been wanting to make a rocket version of the Martin-Marietta X-24B or the Sierra Nevada Company's Dream Chaser. This may give me something to ponder.

I figure the X-24B will have the best glide of the two.
You're right--one of the X-24B's pilots, John Manke, reported in a "Popular Science" article that of all of the lifting bodies, only the X-24B had positive lift after separation from the B-52 launch aircraft; the others all fell like a bomb until they were moving fast enough to "hit their lift stride." The Dream Chaser is based on NASA's HL-20, which in turn is based on the Soviet "Spiral" and BOR-4 lifting bodies. The jet-powered, piloted Spiral test vehicle and the Cosmos SLV-boosted BOR-4 re-entry test vehicles flew well, so a Dream Chaser model should as well.
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I also want to "rocketize" my Facetmobile, which is a really great little lifting body.
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Thank you for those links! I didn't know about the unmanned Payload Return Vehicle versions of the FMX-5 Facetmobile, which have gone supersonic while returning payloads from Skyhook-type stratospheric balloons at space-equivalent altitudes! I also found his airflow visualization method (wet paint on a Facetmobile R/C model) very creative!


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