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Model Forum / General / Rockets / January 2005Columbia Shuttle #1385
Anyone here ever built the Estes Columbia kit #1385? I'm in the middle of a kit bash and got to the point where the instructions say to make a flap on just one side. That just seems strange to me that you would only do it on one side. Anyone? Randy Randy, The instructions do indeed say (and show) the flap (or should we say aileron) and I believe it was to allow for a circling glide. John > Anyone here ever built the Estes Columbia kit #1385? I'm in the middle of > a [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Randy This kit comes down on parachute... It does not glide. DUH!!!! It parachute recovery. I was thinking of the wrong shuttle. The flap was for spin going up for stability. I need new glasses. John > Randy, > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] >> >> Randy It is not a glider. Spin during boost for stability. The flap causes it to spin during liftoff so it does not arch over to one side. > The flap causes it to spin during liftoff so it does not arch over to > one side. Ok, I can buy that. My first thoughts were also that the flap was for a circling glide effect because they only wanted a flap on one side but I knew that it recovers by chute. I built the Centuri version in 1980 and still fly it. The two are very similar and the Centuri version does not use a flap but it does spin ever so slightly during flight. Since I'm building this one as the Armageddon Shuttle (from the movie) and it will have twin boosters next to the OMS pods anyway, I don't think the flap would make much difference in the flight profile for this version. Randy pin during boost for stability during boost. To avoid the deadly flight path of the later foam-orbiter-of-death. -Fred Shecter NAR 20117 > Anyone here ever built the Estes Columbia kit #1385? I'm in the middle of a > kit bash and got to the point where the instructions say to make a flap on > just one side. That just seems strange to me that you would only do it on > one side. Anyone? > > Randy Spin during boost for stability during boost. To avoid the deadly flight path of the later foam-orbiter-of-death. -Fred Shecter NAR 20117 > Anyone here ever built the Estes Columbia kit #1385? I'm in the middle of a > kit bash and got to the point where the instructions say to make a flap on > just one side. That just seems strange to me that you would only do it on > one side. Anyone? > > Randy |
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