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Old 01-17-2009, 03:14 PM
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I'm building the Semroc SST Shuttle and have a few questions.
First, how far up are the wings attached from the aft end of the body tube?
The instructions just say as shown in the the drawings. There are measurements for the support tubes and the tail fin but not the wings.
The same goes for the jet tubes and glider rocket tube. It's not clear how far forward they are suppose to be.
If anybody knows the answers I would appreciate some help.
Other wise I'll just have to wing it.
Thanks.

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I'm building the Semroc SST Shuttle and have a few questions.
First, how far up are the wings attached from the aft end of the body tube?
The instructions just say as shown in the the drawings. There are measurements for the support tubes and the tail fin but not the wings.
The same goes for the jet tubes and glider rocket tube. It's not clear how far forward they are suppose to be.
If anybody knows the answers I would appreciate some help.
Other wise I'll just have to wing it.
Thanks.

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I ran into that when I built mine. I just looked at as many pictures as I could find to see what looked best and put it together using TLAR (that looks about right). Centuri has done that on several kits.

Here is a thread I started a couple of years back with some of the same concerns on the ramjets. Semroc SST-1
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Old 03-08-2009, 08:13 AM
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Default I just finished the SST Shuttle-1.

Thought I'd update this. I did the "that looks about right" as you suggested.

As usual I papered the wings/fins with adhesive label paper. I weighed the balsa for the glider before and after, it added 3 grams. I kept the paint light on the glider, one light coat of primer and one coat of gloss white. Also a coat of Future after the decals. The glider weighs in at 12 grams.
The only thing I haven't done is put on the glider trim tabs, waiting until right before it flies in late April. Don't have any place to trim the glider right now.
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Thought I'd update this. I did the "that looks about right" as you suggested.

As usual I papered the wings/fins with adhesive label paper. I weighed the balsa for the glider before and after, it added 3 grams. I kept the paint light on the glider, one light coat of primer and one coat of gloss white. Also a coat of Future after the decals. The glider weighs in at 12 grams.
The only thing I haven't done is put on the glider trim tabs, waiting until right before it flies in late April. Don't have any place to trim the glider right now.



Very nice Tony.....
There is one in the build pile and I hope it comes out somewhere nearly as shweet as yours.
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That looks about right to me! Nice SST-1
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