As I
mentioned on my 'About Me' page, I have several other hobbies...
Model rocketry is one of them. I have always wanted to build a
Saturn V! The starting shot was fired when I saw the shipping tubes
at Office Max one day, here are the results:
This was an entirely scratch built project, built early summer of
2004, and designed from photos of
all the original Saturn V's. No two Saturn V rockets were exactly
the same. As a result, my model is not perfectly true to any one of
them, but is more of a composite of them all.
The pictures below are pretty self explanatory... What you may not be able
to figure out is the video camera and microwave transmitter on
board. The video camera module plugs into a socket for easy removal.
The maiden flight was flawless, up until parachute deployment
that is! The parachute failed to deploy properly due to yours
truly staying up too late the night before, like a dope, and packing too little
wadding in the bird. An on the ball spectator managed to catch the
falling beast, but there was some damage to the capsule. It will be
ready for another flight with just a little effort, but for now, other
projects are calling!!
