Hello All,

Luke Strawwalker inspired this thread, when he commented (in the "White Vulcan" thread) that the White Vulcan with a pointed nose cone resembled the spaceship in the original "Planet of the Apes" movies. This spaceship, called Icarus, would lend itself to cardstock construction, being an elliptical cross-section cone with "notched-in" windows, triangular cross-section "strake-type wings," and triangular cross-section "strake-type canards." Also:

Interestingly, its sharp-nosed shape is not terribly different from the shapes of the recent hypersonic boost-glide test vehicles, whose shapes have only recently been made practical by the development of new, exceptionally-tough, ceramic composite materials. Also, early tests of these new ceramic materials involved small strakes (similar in shape to those on Icarus) that were affixed to the re-entry vehicles of Minuteman III ICBMs that were launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base. Below are links to images of, information on, and plans for (with dimensioned drawings, see the third link) the Icarus spaceship. A model rocket version might make a decent, if fast-gliding, boost-glider. Here are the links:

http://www.cloudster.com/Sets&Vehic...hip/PofA01.html

http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy-...biw=792&bih=377

http://www.cloudster.com/Sets&Vehic...hip/PofA01.html

http://www.cloudster.com/Sets&Vehic...tasyModels.html

I hope this information will be helpful.

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