What's Your MOST launched rocket?

[nute]

Hey everyone,
I'm new to MPR but i have been working with LPRs for a few years now and have a sizable fleet. MY most launched rocket is my Estes Astron Elliptic II with 22 launches, all but 2 of which were successful. I just wanted to see how this compares to others, so how many flights are on your most launched bird, and how's its safety record??

 

[Area66]

My Arreaux , that is also my smaller one, I launch it 3 or 4 times every 15 days

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[nute]

That's a lot of launches!!
3 times every 15 days!?

 

[Area66]

That's a lot of launches!!
3 times every 15 days!?

since 2 months only ...... I can't launch my bigger rockets since I don't have a waiver

 

[nute]

Still quite impressive.
If the Arroux is your smaller rocket, what's the larger ones?

Oh, now I see the level three cert on your page...

 

[RocketMike]

I haven't had any launches since getting back into the hobby. I know, sad right? Anyway back in the day I had an Estes Alpha that I launched 49 times without losing it. Of all flights, it was on flight number 50 that I lost it to a rocket eating tree. I could see it in the tree and kept going back hoping the wind would someday blow it down and then one day I went back and it was gone, never to be seen again. Don't know what happened to it to this very day.

 

[Area66]

Oh, now I see the level three cert on your page...

CAR lev 3 = TRA lev. 2 all true I can fly L motors , the CAR 4 ( TRA 3 ) will be next summer as I need 10 000 feet and the next launch that high is next summer only

 

[nute]

And I thought 20 flights was a milestone!
50 flights is amazing!
I lost my beautiful EPM 010 to a rocket eating tree after just 5 launches so I can just imagine what it's like to go 49 flights only to lose it on number 50!

 

[nute]

CAR lev 3 = TRA lev. 2 all true I can fly L motors , the CAR 4 ( TRA 3 ) will be next summer as I need 10 000 feet and the next launch that high is next summer only

Very cool!
congrats on the certs!

 

[user 8716]

I have a Binder Design Aspire that has flown at least 28 times on F - H motors. Had 1 no chute, 1 core sample, and 1 major zipper in those flights. I think it has 5-6 more flights but I wasn't recording all of them when I started flying again.

 

[nute]

Very nice!

Was there much rebuild after the "core sample"?

 

[dlb]

An Art Applewhite 29 millimeter flying saucer,its been hard with fiber glass dome.
it now has 65 flights on it,and ready for another 65 more

 

[Aero B]

Big Bertha built around 94 or 95. used it for fun and doing demos for scout groups. No idea how many flights. A few concrete/asphalt landings with popped fins. She was retired last year after a day of flying with my granddaughter.
Thats Bertha in my avatar along with the Phoenix and Redliner built about the same time.

 

[nute]

An Art Applewhite 29 millimeter flying saucer,its been hard with fiber glass dome.
it now has 65 flights on it,and ready for another 65

My god 65 is a lot!!

 

[nute]

An Art Applewhite 29 millimeter flying saucer,its been hard with fiber glass dome.
it now has 65 flights on it,and ready for another 65 more

My god 65 flights is a lot!!
How is the stability on saucers?
they look inherently UNstable

 

[Getmore]

I have two I fly every three weeks along with others.
My black rocket On G64s
My rocket I call Sky Tazor on I 284s Here it is.
These two get alot of sky miles.

 

[Joe V]

Big Daddy, one of my first kits, built in 2008, had 26 launches. Sadly it went up on a D15-4, that must have been a D15-8, came in ballistic on a concrete taxiway. Lots of pieces!

 

[nute]

Ouch!
4 seconds make a difference sometimes!

 

[nute]

That's a purty rocket!!

 

[rstaff3]

For me, the Sweat Stained Clifton Tracking Station Hat of Death (or just the Hat of Death) with 65 flights. I have a lot of rockets and the next most flown one is WAY under that.

Jim Flis will smoke us all with his record, but I forget what that is. MDRA's Dave Weber has a tube finned rocket name Tuber that, as of mid 2011, had 237 high power flights on it.

 

[adrian]

My god 65 flights is a lot!!
How is the stability on saucers?
they look inherently UNstable

Saucers are surprisingly stable because when they're under thrust, the base drag puts the CP some way behind the entire vehicle.

At least, that's the theory. It ought to work for any flat object, not just a saucer. So I did this.


As for most launched rocket, mine would be this scratch-built mini ALARM, which flies on pretty well any 13mm 1/2A or full A that Estes supply. 44 flights recorded so far.

 

[nute]

44 flights is awesome!!
Never would've thought that a flying box would be stable!

 

[JohnNGA]

A very old Big Bertha, and I guess a close second would be my Mars Snooper

 

[dave carver]

44 flights is awesome!!
Never would've thought that a flying box would be stable!

I have the Tour De Deuce rockets right now.They have 44 flights on them, mine will be the 45 for both. They will move on from here when the next person in a state where they haven't flown steps up. I'm not going to send them back to Peartree, him getting stuck with another nearly $25 shipping cost is not fair to him at all. 5 trips left means $125 that if it were me I'd rather spend on rockets....or the wife.

My most flown rocket would have to be my Estes Bull Pup. It flys great on a A8-3 and turn around time is short so it makes it back to the rack more often than others...count....I have no clue. I don't count flights, never have.

 

[ThirstyBarbarian]

My most flown is an Estes Army Hawk I built in the 90's.

I few it while in college and shortly after, then it went on a shelf for years. Pulled it out and flew it when my good friend's son got to be rocket age, and then put it back on the shelf after they moved a way. And now I've pulled it out again now that my nephew is rocket age.

I have no idea how many launches I have on it, but it is a lot. It just keeps going. I've repaired it many times, and it is getting ratty, but still very flyable. I recently repainted it and used a lot of coats, and I actually love its flight characteristics now that it is a bit heavier. It's about the size of a Big Bertha with even larger fins, and it has always flown a bit low and slow. I used to fly it on both B6s and C6s. Now it is even lower and slower. I never fly it on anything less than a C6, and it delivers great dramatic flights each time and always low enough that it won't drift out of my tiny breezy park. It's been my most reliable rocket ever.

 

[NJRick]

My Dr. Zooch Saturn 1b ASTP has 35 flights on her....just an awesome kit!!

 

[BeerorKid]

As for most launched rocket, mine would be this scratch-built mini ALARM, which flies on pretty well any 13mm 1/2A or full A that Estes supply. 44 flights recorded so far.
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I got an ALARM kit at auction last year and I will need to cut new fins because the balsa is all floppy, but it looks like it is going to be fun.

 

[halcro1]

Madcow seawolf.. 10 launches H and I power

 

[cobra1336]

Another NJ dude checking in. Not a lot of launches but my Callitso has worked hard over the years. Always my go to rocket.

 

[kelltym88]

I haven't had any launches since getting back into the hobby. I know, sad right? Anyway back in the day I had an Estes Alpha that I launched 49 times without losing it. Of all flights, it was on flight number 50 that I lost it to a rocket eating tree. I could see it in the tree and kept going back hoping the wind would someday blow it down and then one day I went back and it was gone, never to be seen again. Don't know what happened to it to this very day.

The same thing happened with my Mars Snooper II... Anyway, I don't usually count how many flights, but the rocket in my Avatar pic has about 7 or 8 flights on it. My clone of the original Estes Photon Disruptor (not the bigger version that was just recently DC'd) has about 12-15 flights on it. My Deuces Wild and Tres have quite a few as well.