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**Steven000** · 17 May 2019, 00:28

Looking good so far Ian, nice project :thumb2:
Cheers, Steven

**Guest** · 17 May 2019, 09:33

Originally posted by yak face

Hard to believe that fifty years ago we put a man on the moon and concorde first flew , the future must have seemed like it was going to be incredible , and here we are now - no ones been to the moon since and supersonic airliners are a thing of the past , progress?

Progress isn’t only doing things that nobody ever did before, it’s also realising that some of the things you have been doing aren’t necessary. It's much more efficient for just about every use-case (except speedy arrival) to transport 500 passengers at 1000 km/h than 100 passengers at 2500 km/h, for example. The benefits simply don’t weigh up against the costs. Much the same applies to going to the moon: what is the need to do so? If there is one that doesn’t have a simpler or cheaper earth-bound solution, sure, people will be going back to the moon. Until then, though, there’s nothing to be gained by going there. (In the 60s it was done for one reason only: one-upmanship.)

But at least we’ve got the models as a result of these things, even if they need a lot of work to detail them — but that gives us modellers something to do, doesn’t it?

**Guest** · 17 May 2019, 09:36

Very nice work going into this Ian :smiling3:.

**Steve Jones** · 19 May 2019, 20:28

Some brilliant detailing Ian. Looks like you are having a lot of fun. With all that pipe work its amazing more things didn't go wrong with these rockets. Keep up the great work.