Comes in three sections: (1) Aerobee body; (2) nosecone; (3) fins, along with booster adapter, but lacks the booster. Body, cylindrical, welded sections; steel, gray, with four equidistant vertical conduits along side for electrical wires; cork covered bottom for length of 30 inches and secured to body with flush Philip's head screws; four inset nozzles, shiny metal, probably strainless steel; red rubber gasket on base with cutouts around nozzles. Nosecone, dark copper colored but probably magnesium and extending 47 inches from base of nosecone, and probably serving as control and guidance section; this section heavily corroded with white magnesium powder; cone proper, silver-gray metal; blunt nose tip, shiny; equidistant ovals around periphery of silver-gray nosecone, each oval with small drilled hole at center of ellipse and probably serving as nozzles for expulsion of tiny increments of gas for positioning or attitude control of payload section; further up, towards tip, second ring of equidistant ovals with small drilled holes, and probably similarly serving as tiny nozzles of expulsion of gas for attitude control; large shield-shaped decal on side of control and guidance section; decal, crème colored with yellow borders and disc in middle, representing Earth; one half cobalt blue, other half orange; scroll underneath shield with words, in cobalt blue, "Air Force Geophysics Laboratory"; seven strips of double-sided masking tape at right side of this decal, possibly originally used for attaching instructions, or for other decal. Yellow post-it on side of silver-gray nosecone, with hand written words "Aerobee 350 - Do Not Remove Nosecone and Payload Dummy." Adapter, Nike-Ajax type, steel, consisting of a cone with four equidistant rods protruding from it at slight angles and attached to a ring of wider diameter; the whole, painted flat white; rust underneath adapter. Created by Mark E. Loper Date Created 10/17/2011 Source Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Keywords Rockets; Space Rights and Restrictions Not determined
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