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LSLubecki

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Jul 6, 1998, 3:00:00 AM7/6/98
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I just lost my Bruiser into an 80 foot tree. Local tree trimmers are too busy
for months and the local boom truck rentals want $250.00 plus to get it down.
Id like to build an upscale Saturn V at 7.5 dia. to replace it. Anyone have
plans? I dont really need all the thrusters and trim just paint scheme and
transitions and escape tower dimentions. Thanks

Steve Lubecki

PeteAlway

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Jul 6, 1998, 3:00:00 AM7/6/98
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lslu...@aol.com (LSLubecki) wrote:

>Id like to build an upscale Saturn V at 7.5 dia. to replace it.

It needs to be more than 33 feet in diameter to be an upscale, I'm afraid. You
are talking about a scale model.

>Anyone have
>plans? I dont really need all the thrusters and trim just paint scheme and
>transitions and escape tower dimentions. Thanks

You could buy "Rockets of the World," and divide all the dimensions by 53.

Peter Alway

Bob Kaplow

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Jul 7, 1998, 3:00:00 AM7/7/98
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In article <199807062225...@ladder01.news.aol.com>, lslu...@aol.com (LSLubecki) writes:
> I just lost my Bruiser into an 80 foot tree. Local tree trimmers are too busy
> for months and the local boom truck rentals want $250.00 plus to get it down.
> Id like to build an upscale Saturn V at 7.5 dia. to replace it. Anyone have

> plans? I dont really need all the thrusters and trim just paint scheme and
> transitions and escape tower dimentions. Thanks

I think that's about the size of the Saturn V that ADW (PML online rep) had
at NARCON this year. perhaps he's got some drawings that might help you.

Sadly as far as Peter Alway is concerned, he upscaled the old estes kit,
rather than scaling down from the real rocket. Still the shroud techniques
he used might work for you either way.

I guess I got lucky at the first SMURFF launch (1992) when I put my new
Phantom 4000HD with new 38mm reload set into the top of a tree. The locak
farmer new a tree surgeon who reclaimed it for about $50. it did suffer some
rain damage, and now has a permanent corkscrew in its flight, but it's still
going. Don't 'ya just HATE I parachute duration. Came close to the same
thing on my L2 flight last year, but settled for what would be a record if
it existed J PD flight.

Bob Kaplow NAR # 18L TRA # "Ctrl-Alt-Del"

Kaplow Klips: http://members.aol.com/myhprcato/KaplowKlips.html
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