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Old 03-14-2006, 03:06 PM
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Okay, here's another one. I finally found this one again and it goes WAAYYYY back. I was surprised I could even find it, but I remembered the alternate method of building the leg hinges from rc model airplane hinge points:

http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanave...7721/index.html

Go to the Mars Lander Construction page.

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Old 03-14-2006, 04:49 PM
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Here's the old link from Damian Kostron showing his conversion and how the whole outer shell is built as a unit that slides off and is retained by screws around the lower perimeter. He also added a lot of lead shot in holes drilled into the nose and put in a 24mm mount if I read this correctly. Sounds like the balance point should be around the first transition.

http://www.tela.com/~dtkostron/lander/lander_tips.htm


Scott thanks for posting the links, I bookmarked them! The link with the videos is pretty cool too. Those are really close to the set up I remember seeing a while back for the lander in Extreme Rocketry. I searched and found the one I had first seen in Extreme Rocketry (Issue 1: March 2000) and it was a 2x Lander based on the Estes kit and the link to the file for that one is on this page (3.76MB file).

http://www.extremerocketry.com/downloads/

I like the idea of having access to the landing legs but I also don't want to add too much weight, not more than what an Estes D or E with the short delay could lob. I'm going to have to think about construction options a little more
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