Identified the four different curvature zones along both fuselage sides. To fabricate the four fuselage curvature templates, I began by making 4 paper templates. The paper templates were traced onto wood and cutout using the bandsaw and then sanded.
Finished sanding the NACA Scoop and fuselage bottom then vacuumed the fuselage. Turned the fuselage right side up on the saw horses with carpet placed between the saw horses and the fuselage bottom. See a short video clip. Cutout the area forward of bulkhead F28 and above Water Line 18.9 for the canard.
For our 2019 Yuri’s Night on April 12th we are very pleased to sponsor an event with the 534 Air Cadets in Peterborough, ON, Canada. We will be introducing Yuri’s night to the cadets and providing an overview of the History of Manned Space Exploration followed by an introduction to model rocketry. After a discussion …
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On Thursday March 17th 2016, pilots Christopher Glos and David LeFrancois participated in a University of Texas Medical Branch led Commercial Spaceflight Passenger Training Study at The NASTAR Center. They experienced simulated suborbital spaceflights using NASTAR’s high-performance centrifuge-based simulator. This simulator generated high onset-offset, sustained acceleration (“G”) forces similar to those experienced in commercial spacecraft. Here is …
