| R/C Shuttle Page 3 |
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| Shuttles external tank is covered with orange poster board and has vacuum formed styrene nose and tail cones. |
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| Paited and almost ready to fly. 10/28/02 |
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| Launch day! Everything worked perfectly for the first lauch of the r/c shuttle. The only damage to the system was a brocken fin on the SRB, and a small burn through hole on the body flap of the orbitor caused by the extreme heat of the two Estes E9-4 motors inches away. Also two parachutes got frid from hot ejection gasses. Click here for a video! (Right click link and select "Save target as" |
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| The Second and Third launches took place Aug 9, 2003 in Virginia. |
| First launch, March 17, 2003 in Florida. |
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