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OSC Pegasus paper model
Hello All,
I just found this (see: http://www.orbital.com/LaunchSystem...per_Pegasus.pdf ) downloadable, flying paper (110# cardstock) model of OSC's (Orbital Sciences Corporation's) Pegasus air-launched satellite launch vehicle (see: http://www.orbital.com/LaunchSystem...hicles/Pegasus/ ). With low-powered (13 mm mini motor- or 18 mm "A" motor-powered rockets), this Pegasus model could be carried aloft like the old Estes Firefly parasite boost-glider.
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Black Shire--Draft horse in human form, model rocketeer, occasional mystic, and writer, see: http://www.lulu.com/content/paperba...an-form/8075185 http://www.lulu.com/product/cd/what...of-2%29/6122050 http://www.lulu.com/product/cd/what...of-2%29/6126511 All of my book proceeds go to the Northcote Heavy Horse Centre www.northcotehorses.com. NAR #54895 SR |
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Clicking on the above link to the paper model pdf takes you to Orbital's home page. Here's a current link:
https://www.orbitalatk.com/flight-s...er-Airplane.pdf |
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If necessary for sufficient stability during boost, an extra, clear plastic ventral tail fin (for an original Pegasus model) or clear plastic "extensions" of the normal three Pegasus XL tail fins (which are evenly spaced) could be used. Such semi-scale models of the AQM-37 Jayhawk and AQM-81 Firebolt could be built the same way.
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Black Shire--Draft horse in human form, model rocketeer, occasional mystic, and writer, see: http://www.lulu.com/content/paperba...an-form/8075185 http://www.lulu.com/product/cd/what...of-2%29/6122050 http://www.lulu.com/product/cd/what...of-2%29/6126511 All of my book proceeds go to the Northcote Heavy Horse Centre www.northcotehorses.com. NAR #54895 SR |
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I made a BT50 based model using a cardstock plan with a foam core 'wing'. I used the vacu-formed PNC-50 from Apogee. With a couple sinkers glued into the nose, it flies great as a rocket. Simple streamer recovery. I didn't try to make it glide.
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2018 link to paper model:
https://www.orbitalatk.com/flight-s...er-Airplane.pdf Pegasus website https://www.orbitalatk.com/flight-s...hicles/pegasus/
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Black Shire--Draft horse in human form, model rocketeer, occasional mystic, and writer, see: http://www.lulu.com/content/paperba...an-form/8075185 http://www.lulu.com/product/cd/what...of-2%29/6122050 http://www.lulu.com/product/cd/what...of-2%29/6126511 All of my book proceeds go to the Northcote Heavy Horse Centre www.northcotehorses.com. NAR #54895 SR |
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Black Shire--Draft horse in human form, model rocketeer, occasional mystic, and writer, see: http://www.lulu.com/content/paperba...an-form/8075185 http://www.lulu.com/product/cd/what...of-2%29/6122050 http://www.lulu.com/product/cd/what...of-2%29/6126511 All of my book proceeds go to the Northcote Heavy Horse Centre www.northcotehorses.com. NAR #54895 SR |
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My earlier thread:
http://oldrocketforum.com/showthread.php?t=14866 I've never tried to trim it for gliding - but I don't think it would. My younger boy burned through a bunch of B4 and B6 motors in it one day at a club launch. I don't recall if it was TWA or WOOSH. Prep. Fly, Recover. Repeat.
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Black Shire--Draft horse in human form, model rocketeer, occasional mystic, and writer, see: http://www.lulu.com/content/paperba...an-form/8075185 http://www.lulu.com/product/cd/what...of-2%29/6122050 http://www.lulu.com/product/cd/what...of-2%29/6126511 All of my book proceeds go to the Northcote Heavy Horse Centre www.northcotehorses.com. NAR #54895 SR Last edited by blackshire : 03-28-2018 at 12:11 PM. |
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The tail fins are 120 degrees apart. If it doesn't look that way from the pic, it's just the perspective. I think I put 5g of noseweight in it.
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