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Post by turboNZ on Aug 10, 2006 19:30:11 GMT 12
...but about 6 months I embarked on a project (along with others) to build a 7/10's scale replica of an AIM-9M Sidewinder missile as I needed a coathangar for the new house and what better for the job !! Now if you know me a little about me you'll know that I love building things with aluminium and carbon-fibre so much so that I have started own company now doing just that. Back to the "Sidey"...it still is a long way away from completion but I do a bit at a time when I get some spare time. I studied plans and pictures from the net, drew up my own blueprints and made CAD picture so I could work out fin placement etc.. Enough twaddle.. here some pics of building-in-progress (and 2 of my renders)... It stands about 2m tall (real one is 2.91m long)         |
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Post by xr6turbo1 on Aug 10, 2006 19:35:36 GMT 12
Thats cool, what will you do with it when finished?
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Post by turboNZ on Aug 10, 2006 19:43:55 GMT 12
Keep it in the house to hang jackets up with, or scare the neighbours into thinking I'm up to no good ;D
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Post by corsair67 on Aug 10, 2006 19:56:01 GMT 12
That looks great, Turbo.
You can tell visitors that you found it lying in your backyard one morning, and as far as you know it's quite safe! ;D
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Post by amitch on Aug 10, 2006 20:00:23 GMT 12
Ok as you asked, you are nuts or crazy!!
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Post by turboNZ on Aug 10, 2006 20:00:58 GMT 12
On it's launch party (no, not THAT kind of launch !!) I'm going to get some model rocket motors and mount them inside the bottom of it. Then put it out on the street. THat should rattle the false-teeth of the oldies around the cul-de-sac, if not land me in jail !!!
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Post by turboNZ on Aug 10, 2006 20:03:15 GMT 12
Ok as you asked, you are nuts or crazy!! Umm,...ta....  ;D |
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Post by corsair67 on Aug 10, 2006 20:09:41 GMT 12
Come on Alex; where's your sense of adventure!
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Post by turboNZ on Aug 10, 2006 20:16:20 GMT 12
Ah well, it's not for everyone,
but all need is an imagination, a fairly good workshop and a place where you can obtain aluminium dirt-cheap.....
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Post by Bruce on Aug 10, 2006 21:13:46 GMT 12
Good on ya! I reckon there'd be a market for those if you ever decided to go into production. (definitely a different form of "homebuilt aircraft" - would it fit on the Neuport?)  |
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Post by turboNZ on Aug 10, 2006 21:37:46 GMT 12
ha ha...I think Sidewinders would look teensie bit out of place on an N11.
Mind you they did use rockets attached to the wings struts in WW1.
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Post by planeimages on Aug 10, 2006 22:39:22 GMT 12
I was going to send you some detail shots of the rotating,self-guiding gyros on the rear vanes of a modern sidewinder. I shot these at Avalon airshow on a Hawk. A few days previously I was a guest at RAAF Williamtown and had a drive of the Hawk "stimulator". After two self-initiated aborts due to over-controlling and some additional instruction by my host I manged to land the thing satisfactorily. We went out to the flight-line and had a close look at the Sidewinders. But, of course, no photographs. Funny how I could freely shoot the same aircraft at Avalon without being arrested!
My Photoshop CS has gone berserk eating the computer's internals so I have shut it down for the night.
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Post by turboNZ on Aug 10, 2006 22:44:57 GMT 12
Anything, particularily the warhead nose would be useful thanks. Cheers, |
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Post by planeimages on Aug 25, 2006 20:24:10 GMT 12
...but about 6 months I embarked on a project (along with others) to build a 7/10's scale replica of an AIM-9M Sidewinder missile as I needed a coathangar for the new house and what better for the job !! Now if you know me a little about me you'll know that I love building things with aluminium and carbon-fibre so much so that I have started own company now doing just that. Back to the "Sidey"...it still is a long way away from completion but I do a bit at a time when I get some spare time. I studied plans and pictures from the net, drew up my own blueprints and made CAD picture so I could work out fin placement etc.. Enough twaddle.. here some pics of building-in-progress (and 2 of my renders)... It stands about 2m tall (real one is 2.91m long) At long last here are two shots of the sidewinder gyro-stabilisers on the rear fins of a Sidewinder.   |
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Post by turboNZ on Aug 25, 2006 22:37:56 GMT 12
Excellent !!!!!!!!!!
Thanks, Dude !!
Right, next step is to how to make them and incorporate into my fins.
(Hope you didn't get into too much trouble photographing them !!)
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Post by planeimages on Aug 26, 2006 19:51:15 GMT 12
No trouble. Just send me a file in the cake please!
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Post by turboNZ on Aug 26, 2006 20:02:44 GMT 12
No trouble. Just send me a file in the cake please! ;D ;D ;D |
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Post by phil on Aug 28, 2006 22:21:02 GMT 12
They are only CATMs so no one would have got into trouble.
Why didn't you make it 1:1? I might have even been able to find some parts...or perhaps not since they have become quite scarce in the last few years.
A couple of points, the fin mounts are not offset, and the wings have quite a complex cross section, as can be seen in the photos, they are not flat plate. The wings are fibreglass and are only held on by the hex screw visible in the photos.
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