This may not be the right subforum for AV bay design, I don't hang here much, so please bear with me.
I had a thought that one could use the space between TTW fins, between the MMT and airframe tube as AV bays. One could even attach components directly to the fins tabs, employing them as sleds. Then it occurred to me that this might be something lots of people already do, since there's really nothing new under the sun. Or that, if people are not doing this, there might be a very good reason.
Here's a pretty near scale cross section of a 38 mm MMT inside a 4" tube, with four ¼" TTW fins, and a Featherweight tracker viewed end-on. It looks like making a quadrant of the booster into an AV bay would be pretty easy. Altimeter, tracker, air start electronics, or whatever could go into the same quadrant or multiple quadrants. Either the MMT and fin subassembly or just the aft centering ring would have to be removable from the airframe. A layer of fiberglass wool insulation between the MMT and the electronics would be a good idea.
Thoughts?
I had a thought that one could use the space between TTW fins, between the MMT and airframe tube as AV bays. One could even attach components directly to the fins tabs, employing them as sleds. Then it occurred to me that this might be something lots of people already do, since there's really nothing new under the sun. Or that, if people are not doing this, there might be a very good reason.
Here's a pretty near scale cross section of a 38 mm MMT inside a 4" tube, with four ¼" TTW fins, and a Featherweight tracker viewed end-on. It looks like making a quadrant of the booster into an AV bay would be pretty easy. Altimeter, tracker, air start electronics, or whatever could go into the same quadrant or multiple quadrants. Either the MMT and fin subassembly or just the aft centering ring would have to be removable from the airframe. A layer of fiberglass wool insulation between the MMT and the electronics would be a good idea.
Thoughts?
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