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Back in the day, NASA didn’t just dream large with large launch vehicles… they dreamed large with large models of launch vehicles. For example, here’s a detailed 1/10 scale model of the Saturn C-1 with launch stand, circa 1960. Note that it’s a cutaway model showing innards. I hope that this model, which clearly was the product of a great deal of skill, talent, effort and money, managed to survive somewhere… but I wouldn’t bet on that.
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Title: Design and fabrication considerations for a 1/10-scale replica model of the Apollo/ Saturn V
Author(s): Brock, E. J., Jr.; Leadbetter, S. A.; Leonard, H. W.
Abstract: Dynamic model of Apollo/Saturn V launch vehicle
Publication Date: Oct 1, 1967
Publication Information: Number of Pages = 81
Report Number: NASA-TN-D-4138
Online Source: http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19670028071_1967028071.pdf
Thx for link Michael Holt
i found those picture
http://www.cloudster.com/RealHardware/SIVBStage/Models/S1B02.jpg
http://www.cloudster.com/RealHardware/SIVBStage/Models/S1B04.jpg
last give good Impression how big this model is
i think that also a part of the model ( note the big rollers it stand on)
http://www.cloudster.com/RealHardware/SIVBStage/Models/S4m02.jpg
i hope its Model still exist
this now a lost art, thx to Powerpoint crap
http://up-ship.com/blog/blog/?p=5079
Scott? I do like the Saturn, damned nice model. But I have a different question. You post http://up-ship.com/blog/blog/?p=2648 Creationism vs. Conservativism?Can I copy that listing and use it, with lots of gratuitous hat tips and copious links to your blog? I was going to ask there but no way to comment on that post.
Oh, and now going back to digg it!
Odd early version of the Service Module on that model.
Pat
I admire anyone with the finesse to create such things. I can envision they well enough, but the actual fabrication is something I do poorly.
Jim
> Can I copy that listing and use it, with lots of gratuitous hat tips and copious links to your blog?
Yes.
If North Korea made an exact copy of this it would make a nasty IRBM.
It (or one very much like it) is next to similar models of the IB and V in the lobby of the Von Braun Research Hall at the the University of Alabama in Huntsville…