Another QCC Explorer build thread

[Wayne's World]

Holy cow, you haven't finished your QCC yet? Man, you are missing some great flying. I've launched mine 8 times (1-C11, 5-D12, 1-E9, 1-E20). This rocket flies like a dream. The E20-4 pulled the trifold shock cord mount out, and the cone floated down a quarter-mile away, but the body helicoptered down, fully horizontal, within 100 feet of the pad. I like this bird!

 

[qquake2k]

Holy cow, you haven't finished your QCC yet? Man, you are missing some great flying. I've launched mine 8 times (1-C11, 5-D12, 1-E9, 1-E20). This rocket flies like a dream. The E20-4 pulled the trifold shock cord mount out, and the cone floated down a quarter-mile away, but the body helicoptered down, fully horizontal, within 100 feet of the pad. I like this bird!

I've been waiting for our launch season to start.

 

[DAllen]

I've seen some bad decals in my day but these take the cake. Thin, not pre-cut and basically impossible to work with. I have given up on mine altogether. I'm going to write Estes about this nonsense but am considering repainting it altogether unless someone has a way of removing decals.

I had a half-way decent looking project and now it looks like crap.

 

[qquake2k]

I finally flew my QCC Explorer yesterday at the LUNAR Snow Ranch launch. It was a good flight, but I should have used a D12-5 instead of a D12-3.

[YOUTUBE]f_rHnu1INoo[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE]AXnZrTT-1j4[/YOUTUBE]

 

[bradycros]

I finally flew my QCC Explorer yesterday at the LUNAR Snow Ranch launch. It was a good flight, but I should have used a D12-5 instead of a D12-3.

Cool!

 

[FastCargo]

I finally flew my QCC Explorer yesterday at the LUNAR Snow Ranch launch. It was a good flight, but I should have used a D12-5 instead of a D12-3.

The QCC Explorer is a surprisingly good performer considering all the balsa used, and the drag imposed by the 'scoops'. I launched mine on a C6-3, and though the winds were 10 kts with gusts up to 20 kts, it hardly weathercocked, did a nice demo liftoff, yet still popped at apogee about 150-200 feet.

I think with its interesting visual structure, large size, robust construction, paint scheme/decal combination and flight performance (low and high altitude), it makes for a great demo rocket. Plus the current price is hard to beat.

FC

 

[Scotty Dog]

I finally flew my QCC Explorer yesterday at the LUNAR Snow Ranch launch. It was a good flight, but I should have used a D12-5 instead of a D12-3.

[YOUTUBE]f_rHnu1INoo[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE]AXnZrTT-1j4[/YOUTUBE]

Did you take the vids with the nice new shinny camera?
Nice flight. I got me one of those QCCs. Its in the bag.
Aint goiing no where sitting in the bag now is it ?
Anywhoo- I gotts tell ya,your launch pads look like back breakers.

 

[o1d_dude]

I grabbed a shot of QQ2K's birds sitting on his field table.

Stage Fright in the front, Blood Sucker to the left, QCC Explore in the center, and Wes's Big Red partially visible in the back.

In right background, Step It Up, Stairway to Heaven, and Tank Girl are leaning up against the van.

It was very windy (10-20 mph) so no launches were made until about noon. By that time, the winds had "dropped" to 5-15 mph which made for long recovery hikes for motor deploy MPR and HPR birds.

 

[Scotty Dog]

I grabbed a shot of QQ2K's birds sitting on his field table.

Stage Fright in the front, Blood Sucker to the left, QCC Explore in the center, and Wes's Big Red partially visible in the back.

In right background, Step It Up, Stairway to Heaven, and Tank Girl are leaning up against the van.

It was very windy (10-20 mph) so no launches were made until about noon. By that time, the winds had "dropped" to 5-15 mph which made for long recovery hikes for motor deploy MPR and HPR birds.

Nice rack. Ill have to scrounge me up some fittings here at work and make me self one,ya see.Nice picture of the kids

 

[qquake2k]

I grabbed a shot of QQ2K's birds sitting on his field table.

Stage Fright in the front, Blood Sucker to the left, QCC Explore in the center, and Wes's Big Red partially visible in the back.

In right background, Step It Up, Stairway to Heaven, and Tank Girl are leaning up against the van.

It was very windy (10-20 mph) so no launches were made until about noon. By that time, the winds had "dropped" to 5-15 mph which made for long recovery hikes for motor deploy MPR and HPR birds.

You can barely see Wes' Hijacker on the rack under his Big Red. It's got a G75 Metalstorm in it ready to go. Poor kid, every time he goes to a launch it's too windy. That G75 should take Hijacker to over 1500 ft. Wes isn't comfortable launching it in high wind. I launched my Hijacker on a G80 once, and it landed about a mile from the pads.

 

[qquake2k]

I launched the QCC Explorer again yesterday at the SARG launch, this time on an E9-6. What a great flyer!

[YOUTUBE]EjnyFABlB9c[/YOUTUBE]

 

[thobin]

Nice flights and a great looking rocket nice job. I cant wait to build mine. op:

TA

 

[[POW]Eagle159]

Do you think it went the advertized 1,200 feet high?
That went arrow straight!

 

[qquake2k]

Nice flights and a great looking rocket nice job. I cant wait to build mine. op:

TA

Thanks! Yeah, you better get busy on yours, it's worth the trouble!

 

[qquake2k]

Do you think it went the advertized 1,200 feet high?
That went arrow straight!

I have no idea about the altitude. It's hard to judge through the viewfinder of a camera. But it did get up there. I need to get me an Altimeter One.

 

[Fred22]

I have no idea about the altitude. It's hard to judge through the viewfinder of a camera. But it did get up there. I need to get me an Altimeter One.

You sure got some nice photos of a great looking rocket
Cheers
fred

 

[gdjsky01]

Nice flight! Congrats on that first picture! Its a beaut. :handshake: Gotta ~6.5 second delay by my count. How about that! :grin:

 

[qquake2k]

You sure got some nice photos of a great looking rocket
Cheers
fred

My nephew took the photos. He has some mad rocketry photo skillz!

Nice flight! Congrats on that first picture! Its a beaut. :handshake: Gotta ~6.5 second delay by my count. How about that! :grin:

6.5 seconds, huh? You keep that stopwatch with you all the time? LOL

 

[gdjsky01]

My nephew took the photos. He has some mad rocketry photo skillz!



6.5 seconds, huh? You keep that stopwatch with you all the time? LOL

Just watching your videos, guessimating burnout, and count one one-thousand!

 

[mainer]

Nice flight, congrats.
I don't know how these threads get by me, guess I should pay more attention. It was mentioned in a earlier post about doing an upscale, well my buddy did. I posted pics on my site, I'm still waiting for the finshed(painted) pics but it still looks pretty good. https://midcoastrocketry.com/Customer-Projects.html

 

[[POW]Eagle159]

Nice flight, congrats.
I don't know how these threads get by me, guess I should pay more attention. It was mentioned in a earlier post about doing an upscale, well my buddy did. I posted pics on my site, I'm still waiting for the finshed(painted) pics but it still looks pretty good. https://midcoastrocketry.com/Customer-Projects.html

THAT IS A W E S O M E ! ! !

 

[SteveA]

Great build log! I contemplated buying one of these in my next "acquisition round" however, after reading this, I'm convinced I'm not ready yet and had just better stay on the porch...and bark.

 

[qquake2k]

Great build log! I contemplated buying one of these in my next "acquisition round" however, after reading this, I'm convinced I'm not ready yet and had just better stay on the porch...and bark.

Come on now. If I can build it, you can!

 

[SteveA]

Come on now. If I can build it, you can!

Yeah, remind me to tell you the little story about a Fliskit Thunderbird, paper boat tails, and anything that requires precision. I'll just admire yours for awhile.

I'm not ready to run with the big dogs yet.

 

[Wayne's World]

Nice flight, congrats.
I don't know how these threads get by me, guess I should pay more attention. It was mentioned in a earlier post about doing an upscale, well my buddy did. I posted pics on my site, I'm still waiting for the finshed(painted) pics but it still looks pretty good. https://midcoastrocketry.com/Customer-Projects.html

Looks good, but it's missing a fin (been considering 3 fins, myself). The QCC Explorer has 4. What size is the body tube, by the way?

 

[qquake2k]

Yeah, remind me to tell you the little story about a Fliskit Thunderbird, paper boat tails, and anything that requires precision. I'll just admire yours for awhile.

I'm not ready to run with the big dogs yet.

Well now, I'm no good at paper boattails. If the QCC Explorer had one, I doubt if I would have attempted it. No, I can't say that. It was a gift from my nephew, so I had to build it no matter what. But I'd much rather assemble 11 pieces of interlocking balsa wood four times, than do one paper boattail! LOL

 

[Wayne's World]

Well now, I'm no good at paper boattails. If the QCC Explorer had one, I doubt if I would have attempted it. No, I can't say that. It was a gift from my nephew, so I had to build it no matter what. But I'd much rather assemble 11 pieces of interlocking balsa wood four times, than do one paper boattail! LOL

Amen, brother!

 

[jeffgeraci]

Just found this thread... very nice flight!! I bought one for my son, still in the bag, though we did assmble the air intakes, finally! I know what you mean about all those parts.

 

[SteveA]

I bought one a couple of weeks ago and began assembly this weekend. Ah the intakes. After building the first one I wasn't as intimidated by all those parts. (At first I wasn't sure if I were over my head.) I taped them on just to get an idea what she'll look like. I can best describe it as... Bad Ass. I really like the looks of this rocket.

 

[Astro-Baby]

I have one of these on my build list, just so I know is there any reason why CA is used so much on this rather than a white or yellow wood glue ?

Reason for asking is I know from reading CA is used by aero modellers because of its lower weight and also makes it faster to build ........I did a lot of reading on wood glues prior to building my telescope eyepiece case ( which uses a LOT of wood parts ) I didnt come to any conclusions from reading so I made some test strips up using different glues. i found the CA would split apart a lot easier than a white PVA based glue. As PVA and aliphatic ( yellow glue) has about the same properties apart from drying time I assume yellow glue would have the same strength.

Hence the question why CA ? Is it just weight and drying time ?