CarolineTyler
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Think they are going to need a bigger extinguisher!I think I should get one of these to power my next rocket glider:
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Think they are going to need a bigger extinguisher!I think I should get one of these to power my next rocket glider:
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Is that a O class? you would rip the wings off of any balsa glider with one of those things. I suggest an experiment!
P. There's a thread going on about it at The Rocketry Forum. I can't imagine building something to handle that, although several have done so including the 3/4 scale Mercury Redstone launched earlier this year.
So are you NAR certified level 3 high power? i think that maybe a scale space shuttle would be fun
Hehe. I told Dan that I had 10-12 career launches as a kid. But never had a club type environment. Looks like fun!
Now for my next shenanigan: Hope and I worked up this idea of building a reliable glider from a single 4x12 sheet of 1/16" balsa. It was successful, and I decided to launch it on a rocket, but if you're gonna do that, might as well do it right, and make it repeatable for others. I shredded the first one, but managed to prove that you can get nice flights from some 1/16" scraps and no sanding. The launch is much straighter and higher than Hope or I ever expected. Also, I successfully stuck a fin in the exhaust stream and got it to survive--twice!
Links to plans and such are in the video description. I hope to get more details up eventually, but there's enough data provided to be able to build the whole setup without having to send me money (and I'll happily clear up any confusion free of charge because this isn't about making money).
Anyway had a ton of fun with it, now have to work on a camera to ride along. And if i want to i can also launch this with 4 motors: 3 A3-4T's and one D12-7. Might be something fun to try.
That would be a very cool flame, although you won't get much extra performance from the A cluster with a central motor that powerful. Someone in one of the rocketry facebook groups gave that critique to one of the Mach 1 prototypes. I think it was a 54mm surrounded by 3 29mm motors and the remark was that the rocket would go just as high if not higher with the cluster mounts empty. So you might want to try another with the cluster units upscaled to 18mm. The other nice thing is that above 13mm you can start using composite motors, and there are some really cool offerings. Currently you can't get past D power in 18mm, but that's still pretty substantial (it's possible to do Mach 1 with a carefully designed/built D21 powered rocket).
Anyway, it's a cool rocket regardless. I actually have yet to try a cluster and keep wanting to, but I need a higher voltage launch controller before I try that stuff. Sometime in the next few months I'll probably cluster my big F rocket glider, but that'll be at a public launch where ignition voltage is nice and aggressive.