SDLV the "Stick"
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Simply the best and cheapest way to get in on the space program past &
present. High quality, reasonable price and first class components set these
kits apart from other historic rocket kits on the market today.
Length 17 - 18.7"
Fin span 2.2"
Weight 1.29oz.
Recommended Motor:
B Thru C
Retail 24.95
Buy It Now 23.50
SDLV
the
"Stick"
Instead of just getting a look at the future through cool NASA graphics, now
you can actually beat them to the future! That’s right, you can fly NASA’s
next generation of manned boosters before it is ever off the drawing board!
This is the Shuttle Derived Launch Vehicle, affectionately dubbed “The
Stick.” Using a single shuttle Solid Rocket Booster and a liquid fueled second
stage, The Stick is proposed to send the new Crew Exploration Vehicle into
earth orbit. Of course professional astronauts will climb on top of anything and
be shot into space and The Stick pretty much will peg their Anything-O- meter.
When you fly this model, you’ll think that it too is going
into earth orbit. This model is scaled to match our Space
Shuttle model just like the real thing. It is a VERY high
flyer- with low drag and very high speed. It can be flown
on an “A” “B” or “C” engine and shoots like an arrow.
Landing is by a 6 inch parachute, not because the model is
small, but because we’d like you to have a reasonable
chance of getting it back to make another flight. It
features CEV wraps taken from the latest NASA graphics
of the proposed Stick and an upper stage wrap that looks
just like the external tank foam that is proposed for the
real thing. We’ve even taken photos and then doctored
them to look like the real thing. We sent them to NASA
who said “Who are you and why do you keep sending us
this nonsense- don’t you know we’re busy… we’re NASA
for crying out loud.” When ready to fly, The Stick stands
just over 16.5 inches tall (our model of it that is… we hear
that the real thing is planned to be slightly larger) This will
be the second element of our set of US launchers that are
all in the same scale, the Shuttle, The Stick, and the
heavy lift SDLV In-Line.