How big is the UFO series Lunar Module? It is the space-plane that
looks like a trilobite
http://www.trilobite.com/ . Someone sent me
an .OBJ mesh model (not made by Don Showalter) of it a few days ago.
It has two doors, one each side, shown as areas textured with a
slightly different color. If they are accurate to scale compared with
on the studio model, if they are 6 feet high measured vertically,
then the module is a bit over 80 feet long.
How much of the front end is likely to be cabin / hold rather than
mechanism? It would sometimes have to carry large mechanical items
and bulks of fuel and spare Interceptor missiles etc to Moonbase, not
only men. So the inside would have to be at least that big, and the
doors would have to be big enough to let them in.
I get the impression that in pursuit of "coolness" the model maker
took the trilobite shape too far. I see no purpose for the crosswise
finning on the top of the "abdomen": in air it is aerodymically an
abomination, and with rocket motors it is not needed as cooling fins
like on some motorcycle engines.
Same as with Sky 1 and some of the Thunderbirds, as others have
pointed out. Oh well. It is said that "you can't learn swordsmanship
from Homer". Likewise, I suppose, you can't learn aerodynamics from
Gerry Anderson.
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