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I never drew up plans for the larger one, but tracings for the smaller one you can find here:

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=979395#post11284823

Basically I just upscaled it,...

Here is a video that my friend Ivan took at the Fly-A-Ways field in Hillsboro, OR while I was doing a demo flight for them to see what rocket gliders were about. This is the 6 foot version flying on...

Hi, no I just got home to Oregon. I did have a guy that had cut out my article from sport rocketry hoping to find me there and was so happy to talk to me, it made the trip worth while:) The talks...

Ari, I didn't see you over at NARCON this weekend, would have like to have chatted with you.

Frank

Unfortunately the club doesn't have permission to go into the adjacent field, so I'm out of luck.

It's an interesting thought, but I was pretty careful threading it in and usually pull it out part way to be sure it isn't bunched up as would happen if I had missed the slot....I may switch to the...

Yup, that was me who wrote the article.



I have had some E-6 reloads that were made from blackjack propellent as an endburner by mistake that were like an E-1....they just sat and burned on...

Yesterday I was doing some flights at a new club, flew my large X-15, ALCM, Interceptor and a new Bomarc.

I had a G-40 single use blow the aft end off on ignition using a copperhead in my X-15,...

I've used them on a few of my depron rocket gliders, not so much for any performance advantage as my wing loadings are so low that a pure flat plate works fine, but mainly to hide the spar that I...

Thanks, the markings are a combination of self adhesive trim monokote cut to shape, self adhesive decals from sig(stars and bars), vinyl letters from Office Max, and sharpie marking pens for the...

I got in the tubes from wildman and the fiberglass. Left the bottom tube 30" and cut the top to 11". I used my sabre saw to cut the fins out, 1/8" for the bottom and 3/32" for the top to save a bit...

Hanna Reitsch was the pilot....she's gone now, so I'm one of the few alive who have successfully flown and landed a rocket boosted buzzbomb now:) Hee Hee.....operation crossbow has some great launch...

What is the AUW so far?

Frank

True, but it is so fast a turnaround you blow a lot more $$ on motors:)

Thanks for the encouragement and yes those decals should look familiar. For a straight conical I could have narrowed the stripes a bit to get equal spacing of white and black but I was too lazy. ...

A few more interesting photos....

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I've done this in the past and just used a simple dc speed control on the flap or gear switch. I just hook up the igniter after rx power up and binding and have not had any glitches in flight. For...

X-15.....although it didn't have a back seat:)

Here's my large 72" long RC boost glide version for F-26's or G-33's:

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Here's the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggSArYYxtOc

Here's the cone with the lower stripes and 31's....I'll hit it with some flat overcoat to get rid of the shine. It's next to my 4" version, the nose was "shortened" on the 4" when the chute didn't...

And a few more showing multiple short pershing 2's and a normal pershing 2 as you typically see, the second to last shows a 1A test that has a parabolic cone in place, and the final one another...

While I'm waiting for the booster parts and paint to dry on the cone, I thought I'd post a few pershing pictures that I haven't seen much on the web. One is a pershing 1A with what appears to be a...

Here I did the base of the cone od, and shown are some basswood detail strips and the open rocket file.

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My 4" scratchbuilt pershing 1A flew pretty well, and was a testbed for building a 7.5" version. I gave up after a year of trying to get a true pershing cone from PR, and finally settled for one of...

here's a nice photo of an Arcas from Albuquerque showing the fin detail for you....
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I used my altimiter two for the first time yesterday with my daughters science project rockets. She made identical designed/shaped and weighted rockets with diameter being the only difference and...

It looks like there is a lot of flex in the tower, it looks like it whips and then once flexed the thrust is not vertical and just keeps arcing over....

Frank

Yeah, but I need a spare so I can autograph it and dedicate it to myself:)

[QUOTE=dave carver;454954]...what? To go with the 27 copies you already have? ;)

Hey, I'm on the cover of this one, maybe I should get it:)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/High-Power-Rocketry-magazine-February-1995-V10N2-HPR-/330852859346?pt=Model_Kit_US&hash=item4d085dfdd2

I've done a parachute recovered rocket version using a stuffer tube, basswood wings/tail and vacu-formed body and pulsejet, I did mount the motor in the rear of the fuse instead of trying to deal...