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by **Switchfront** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 2:29 pm

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!

by **Vallikat** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 3:21 pm

That's amazing.

Do you think they'll actually get it off the ground?

by **Switchfront** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 3:23 pm

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

by **Chaimera** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 1:00 am

kickass!

by **Kryat** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 1:25 am

rock on that things gunna fly baby XD

by **Kyrros** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 4:08 am

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!

by **Dasubervixen** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 3:44 pm

Bummer.

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/boom/x+wing- ... 307945.php

by **Switchfront** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 3:49 pm

Such a shame

LOL

by **Ceryn** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 3:50 pm

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

by **Switchfront** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 4:24 pm

Or it could just be the fact they used elmer's glue hehehe

by **Vallikat** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 4:30 pm

Ceryn wrote:. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN3JjUUdjWU

Brilliant!

by **Switchfront** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 4:33 pm

I love Top Gear btw, that show rulez.. Somehow I skipped right over that youtube link lol, awesome video, never seen that one!

by **Kryat** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 1:09 am

awwww man it asploaded T_T

by **Firia** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 2:01 am

Dasubervixen wrote:Bummer.

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/boom/x+wing- ... 307945.php

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."

by **Neoagent** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 12:22 am

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!

by **Switchfront** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 1:41 am

LOL "what really happened to the x-wing"

http://www.break.com/index/what-really- ... aunch.html

by **Narcotic** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 1:59 am

by **Ceryn** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 3:10 am

*laughs*..

by **Chaimera** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 4:25 am

that was freakin awsome

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