How did they get the Gemini-Rogallo test vehicle airborne? [ Big G Gemini Question]

"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
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OM wrote:

...Remember that the 1/48th was planograph reduced from the 1/24th, as
with most of Revell's space kits. The sole exception I can recall was
the 1/24th really awful Block I CSM stack, which deviated from the
produced-far-more-than-should-be-legally-allowed CSM "Over The
Rainbow" 1/96 CSM stack.


Uh...OM.... the big Revell CSM was in 1/48th scale; not 1/24th.
And the 1/48th scale Mercury/Gemini combo kit predated the 1/24th scale
Gemini by years.
The 1/24th scale Gemini kit/Gemini mockup contest was around 1967,
according to this:
http://www.clothmonkey.com/gemini.htm
The only other 1/24th scale spacecraft they did was Vostok; why they
never did a Mercury is beyond me.
My current dilemma is determine how exactly I acquired the Friendship 7
patch- the Molly Brown and Liberty Bell 7 patches came with the Gus
Grissom Memorial Mercury/Gemini set, but where the hell did the Glenn
patch come from? The Mercury/Atlas set?

Pat


Wow ... I remember talking to one of my co-workers just a couple of years
ago about this ad. Along the lines of "I wonder who won it?" Now I know.

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 04:33:27 -0600, Pat Flannery
wrote:

Uh...OM.... the big Revell CSM was in 1/48th scale; not 1/24th.

....Yeah, sue me. I get the scales mixed up all the ****ing time these
days. It's probably why I've convinced myself that 12" isn't as long
as some people claim it is :-P

OM

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DHE wrote:

Wow ... I remember talking to one of my co-workers just a couple of years
ago about this ad. Along the lines of "I wonder who won it?" Now I know.


I wanted that thing so bad I could taste it.

Pat

OM wrote:

...Yeah, sue me. I get the scales mixed up all the ****ing time these
days. It's probably why I've convinced myself that 12" isn't as long
as some people claim it is :-P


And here I thought you were doubling everything again, like when you
planned that expedition to build a bridge between the twin peaks of
Kilimanjaro...or was it to put your dental bridge between the four peaks
on the chest of that Russian stripper you know. What was her
name...Aelita? Is that with two "l"s or four? :-P

"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
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You used to get one of those kits when you signed up for The Science
Service and got their stick-in stamp illustration books for 10 cents
(IIRC). (I can still taste the adhesive on those stamps.)

I still have some of those books in storage.