Continued from the last post:
Here's the top of an engine sitting in the motor mount/fin can. Notice how it is centered, just inside the upper centering ring hole. The ejection charge would clear the plastic lip of the ring.
I did a dry fit of the fins.
Against a back light you can see the airfoil taper.
Here's the launch lug again.
The left side of the base is right down the seam of the wrap.
Usually on a factory installed wrap, the detail lines don't match. On this one - everything lines up!
It looks like the lug was glued on with a hot glue. There is a little clear glue squeezed out on each side.
...and on more RTFs/ARFs—that fin interface is common to all the recently released ARFs (including those accessory boosters) as well as a number of E2X types, such as the new Ghost Chaser. It makes for some intriguing thoughts about mixing and matching parts....
ReplyDeleteThat interface also makes the fins removable as long as one doesn't glue them in, for packing flat or for replacement. It's one of John Boren's neater ideas in plastic, I think.
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