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Old 06-26-2018, 08:20 PM
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Originally Posted by BARGeezer
Enerjet had plans for a Mercury Little Joe (Little Joe I) in their Jan., 1973 newsletter. You can read about it in Chris Michealsson's blog here:

http://modelrocketbuilding.blogspot...ttle-joe-i.html

It used the same Mercury capsule currently being sold separately by Estes. With the parts list, templates, and instructions from the newsletter, it was easy to build a clone. It had nozzles made from cut off golf tees, but I left those off. And it was semi-scale, not true to scale, with the body lengthened a bit for stability.


FYI - That Centuri design fibbed on the diameter. The Redstone rocket was 70" in Diameter. The Little Joe I was 80" in diameter. There was a short conical adapted between the Mercury and Little Joe main body to go from 70" to 80".

At 1/35 scale, that would be a 2.28" body: BT-70 would be "close enough".

So one question that arises is if the adapter will be a paper transition (requiring some ST-20 2.04" tubing inside to hold the existing Mercury) or a molded piece.


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