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21 ft X-Wing
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Wed Oct 03, 2007 2:29 pmby Switchfront
I dunno if this has been posted, cause I've been gone for quite a while, but thought I'd toss it in. If it's been posted, just yank this one from the board and accept my apologies
http://www.polecataerospace.com/X-Wing.htm
Flight date commences Oct 6th w00t!
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Wed Oct 03, 2007 3:21 pmby Vallikat
That's amazing.
Do you think they'll actually get it off the ground?
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Wed Oct 03, 2007 3:23 pmby Switchfront
With all the help they've had for it, I'd say it's Death Star bound
Flight date is 10/06/07.. just a few days and we'll see
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Thu Oct 04, 2007 1:00 amby Chaimera
kickass!
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Thu Oct 04, 2007 1:25 amby Kryat
rock on that things gunna fly baby XD
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Thu Oct 04, 2007 4:08 amby Kyrros
I have been asked many times "You built that by yourself?". No, Not even close. Our rocket club, Tripoli San Diego, has a diverse membership with a wide range of skills and abilities. Almost everyone in the club participated.
I see a synergy here. TO SPACE!
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Mon Oct 08, 2007 3:44 pmby Dasubervixen
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Mon Oct 08, 2007 3:49 pmby Switchfront
Such a shame
LOL
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Mon Oct 08, 2007 3:50 pmby Ceryn
A shame, but looking at the launch, it is really quite obvious why it broke up the way it did, with no gyro stabalisation, the slightest imbalance between the rockets will result in the whole vessel veering off course, and the stressses associated with that... will give rise to exactly what was seen.
please also see...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN3JjUUdjWU
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Mon Oct 08, 2007 4:24 pmby Switchfront
Or it could just be the fact they used elmer's glue hehehe
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Mon Oct 08, 2007 4:30 pmby Vallikat
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Mon Oct 08, 2007 4:33 pmby Switchfront
I love Top Gear btw, that show rulez.. Somehow I skipped right over that youtube link lol, awesome video, never seen that one!
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Tue Oct 09, 2007 1:09 amby Kryat
awwww man it asploaded T_T
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Tue Oct 09, 2007 2:01 amby Firia
I like to think that the fall of the X-Wing launch was a metaphore for the integrity of Star Wars movies (or hell, as a product, period); It looks great, hopes are high, and even starts off wowing everyone! Then it went to far, tried to do to much, all that quality fell apart, and scattered all over the earth. Now it's rubble. Smolldering rubble... and next year it will be marketed as "X-Wing; Shadows of the Jedi."
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Thu Oct 11, 2007 12:22 amby Neoagent
Actually I was happier with the Y-Wing design (Yeah, the one that BEAT the 21ft X-Wing). I mean sure X-Wings are cool but they tip of the ice burg, Y-Wings were so much fun to piolet (and bombing the hell out of everything) in rogue leader!
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Sat Oct 13, 2007 1:41 amby Switchfront
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Sat Oct 13, 2007 1:59 amby Narcotic
LOL
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Sat Oct 13, 2007 3:10 amby Ceryn
*laughs*..
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Sat Oct 13, 2007 4:25 amby Chaimera
that was freakin awsome