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HI,thought id start this one,its the next phase of the pre-apollo flights,preparing the launch vehicles.This was launch no5,and it utilised all new fins,and a seperating upper stage topped by a jupiter missile nose cone,which made it very distinctive,this was the launch that president kennedy the day before he was assaainated,said with this we will have caught up with russian technology?. This was the first flight to reach orbit. martin,s models does a complete kit,or as im using a conversion set to use the Airfix saturn 1B Apollo 7 kit.the choice is yours? Also the use of a jupiter nose cone on this flight inspired many jokes about it being extremely pointy?heres one with werhner talking to kennedy,about the rocket.? thats off the net in images? So heres the start of the build..... im using an old saturn kit to convert,so ive had to clean off previous paint etc the fist job is too remove all the kit fins and removing the top of the cluster,but if you were starting fresh,you would not fit this part, i noticed that with the tank top,off there was a slight movement in the vertical join,it was a little bit flexible, so i cut some strips of plastic and fit them inside the body to stop the flex? now start to fit the conversion kit fins.. cheers Don -
S200 5V11/ V-400 "Dal" - NATO reporting name SA-5 Griffon, Surface to Air Missile, pics by Bootneck Mike.
