WAEC Rockets
Space
Racer
SAM-66
Sunbird
II
Pi
Sprint
Leviathan
Space
Racer II
Arcturus
Mk. 1
Roswell
or Bust!
Brinley
Short
March
Discovery
XW-1
Apollo-LES
Sprint
II
Lone
Star
Mercury-Redstone
Shenzhou
Saturn
1B
Saturn
V
Gemini-Titan
II
Juno I
Chrysler
Building
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WAEC
Inventory
Fleet
Photos
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Names of original designs
are italicized.
ca. January 1998
This is the first known photo taken of the fleet that
is now the WAEC's. Admittedly, this is a very bad picture, but it was
shot with a cheap camera by an inexperienced photographer. Looking
closely, you can barely make out, from left to right: Star
Wars X-Wing (unpainted), Big Bertha, America (with red nose cone),
Mk-109 Stingray, Impulse, Imitation V-2, Gnome, Skywinder, Wizard,
Hijax,
Mongoose, and ARV Condor (still in its box, with the wing of one of its
gliders sticking out).
June 1998
This picture was most likely shot during June of 1998. Seated behind
the coffee
table is a younger version of me. This picture does not show the
rockets
under construction at the time, which included Pi. From left to right
we have: Star Wars X-Wing (supported by Lego bricks), ARV Condor (this
time without its box), Sunracer (yellow), Skywinder, Big Bertha, Hijax
(on launch pad), Gnome, Mongoose, Mk-109 Stingray, America (still with
red nose cone), and Wizard.
November 21, 1999
This photo was shot the day of SAM-66's and Sunbird II's first flight
(November 21, 1999).
From left to right: (back row) Big Bertha, Skywinder, Mk-109 Stingray,
America, Hijax (with Star Wars Pit Droid action figure in payload bay),
Wizard (missing a nose cone), F-22 Air Superiority Fighter, (second
row)
Star Wars X-Wing (now painted), Sunracer (on X-Wing's laser cannon),
Galileo,
Zinger, SAM-66, Alpha (what a terrible paint scheme!), Space
Racer, (front row) F-14 Tomcat, Pulsar, Torque, Fury, Gnome, and Sunbird
II.
March 15, 2001
I shot this photo in March of 2001. Since
the fleet had grown so much since the previous fleet photo, the rockets
had to be set up on spike rows and terraced. To make identification
easier, the rockets are pointed out individually by what they're
standing
on. From left to right on trumpet case (brown box): Mk-109 Stingray
(white and red), Skywinder, America (red, white, and blue, now with
proper
gold nose cone), Impulse (painted silver, rear section only), Big
Bertha,
Hijax, Comanche-3 (long, skiny, and orange), Gnome (in front of
Comanche-3),
Silver (the tiny rocketship), Wizard (blue), Leviathan
(shorter,
fat, and also orange), Sunracer (tiny and yellow), Pulsar (blue with
white
nose cone), Space Racer II (white, long, and skinny), Alpha FS
(below
Space Racer), Two-Bitz, Pi (tall, fat, and also white), Arcturus
Mk. 1 (between Pi's fins), and Orbital Transport (unpainted, lying
prone). Clockwise, on Encyclopedia Brittanicas: Mean Machine (very
tall), SAM-66, X-15 (dark and lying prone), Apollo-LES
(white cone topped with tower), F-22 Air Superiority Fighter (gray,
with
white booster), and Astrocam (yellow). Inset
of rockets on grey folder file box. On floor, left to right:
E2X Series Space Shuttle, Sunbird II, Roswell or Bust!,
Master's
Series Space Shuttle (upright), X-Wing (upright), and F-14 Tomcat
(grey,
lying prone).
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