In lieu of the post originally planned to appear here, and inspired by the fantastic Mercury Little Joe build currently in progress on the ever exceptional Model Rocket Building blog, I am inserting these photos of my scratch-built, semi scale Mercury Little Joe. This model rocket was constructed, in stages, from 1986 to 1999, utilizing an original Centuri Super Scale Mercury Redstone kit with its splendid injection moulded Mercury capsule.
The rocket thus measures the same 52 mm in diameter as its donor kit. It was converted for 24 mm D motors, however, and completed using balsa wood fins as well as various surplus plastic parts to simulate the rocket nozzles of the original. As this model was largely built before the existence of the Internet as we know it today, it was rather difficult to obtain reference material, with the exception of a few sparse photos in books and magazines.
Photos taken in Zurich, Switzerland, on August 1, 2016.
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