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 Rocketry Product: Landis - Nymph {Plan}

Rich's Rockets: Building the Landis Nymph (part 1) (2016-07-02)

We’re now two weeks away from the July launch, whose contest — ½A Glider Duration — is one of the ones I have focusing on as a goal. And I don’t have a thing to fly. Yeah, I made a ... [Read More]

Rich's Rockets: Building the Landis Nymph (part 2) (2016-07-09)

I had a bunch of progress to report on the Nymph — I thought. The other day I got two packages in the mail: a nose cone (and some other stuff) from eRockets and some ⅛” by ⅛” spruce ... [Read More]

Rich's Rockets: Building the Landis Nymph (part 3) (2016-07-10)

OK, this makes more sense. Wing shaped and dihedralized. Angle isn’t crazy. Meanwhile I put together the fuselage boom and pylon, two ⅛” by ⅛” pieces of spruce for each. [Read More]

Rich's Rockets: Building the Landis Nymph (part 4) (2016-07-14)

I was a little puzzled about the stab. Landis’s 1974 Model Rocketry article shows the stab mounted on top of the fuselage boom while von Kiparski’s 2002 redrawn plan has it underneath. I ... [Read More]

Rich's Rockets: Building the Landis Nymph (part 5) (2016-07-15)

The last several pieces were glued on. Here’s a piece of launch lug (sloppily cut, as all my launch lug cuts tend to be) glued under the stab. There’s a piece of scrap balsa clamped to ... [Read More]

Rich's Rockets: Nymphail (2016-07-18)

I overlooked something when I checked the Nymph for damage. Do you see it? The rear stop for the motor pod — it’s gone! I have a theory of what happened. The Nymph has no thrust ring. ... [Read More]