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Featured Review
Clone X-15
Manufacturer: Modification
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Contributed by Steve Lindeman
Brief
In all fairness I can't do a brief description on this kit as there is a small story behind it. As is normal for me this is not an actual review of the Estes NASA X-15 (0889) [1988-1989].
It is a kit bashed, clone by transition. I came about the idea of doing the X-15 as the G-15 after building my first eight Goonybirds. The logical choice was to wait until the 15th Baby Bertha kit bash and then do the G-15 (Goony-15). Well as luck would have it I built her like I was building a Goony only to discover in the end that the original kit was a BT-60 based rocket and that I merely had to do a nose cone swap to make it a modified clone.
Components
As I said this was a kit bash-clone project so the main components were as follows:
From Baby Bertha kit:
- 1- BT-60 Body Tube
- 1- PNC-60 Nose Cone (swapped out after first flight)
- 1- Launch Lug
- 1- Engine Hook
- 1- Shock Cord
- 1- Assembled 12" Parachute (transparent orange plastic)
- 1- Mylar Retainer
- 1- Green Engine Block
- 1- Blue Engine Mount Tube
- 1- Centering Ring Card
- 1- 1/8" Sheet of Balsa
From my personal stock:
- 1- Sheet Computer Paper (for printing new decals and covering all balsa wood)
- 1- Empty Cereal Box (for making Wing Shrouds)
- 1-PNC-60AH Nose Cone (from one of my old semi-retired Estes Prowler's)
- Hobbylite filler by Hobbico (for molding canopy & filling gaps)
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