I finally got the R/C ignition to work on the glider of the 4x Orbital Transport (Upscale). The booster had a CTI J285 relying on the motor time delay, which is a little bit too long. It looks like the glider was inverted or upside down initially at separation. The motor in the glider is an Apogee F10, which is an AP composite end-burner and can be difficult to ignite. There have been at least 2 previous attempts that did not work. Since there was probably some soot on the propellant I gingerly cleaned this off with a small screw driver several weeks ago. Yesterday, I put about 0.5" length of thermalite through the nozzle prior to putting in an Aerotech First Fire Jr.
There was a key chain camera on the booster looking forward. The link for the video is here. The lift-off is about 1 and 1/2 minutes into the video. A few seconds after the glider separation upon booster parachute ejection, you can hear the motor on the glider ignite. The booster parachute is large so it takes awhile to land. The booster actually landed upright, but then fell over. This can be seen on the video.
[video=youtube_share;BKi9AsStSdM]https://youtu.be/BKi9AsStSdM[/video]
There was also a key chain camera on the glider (orbiter) looking aft. The motor can be seen firing on the glider, but it is not very pronounced. I had hoped that the motor would give some air speed to glider, so that the glider would fly better, but alas the glider is just too heavy and still landed in pancake mode. There was no damage to either the booster or glider.
[video=youtube_share;6apRWL92JxI]https://youtu.be/6apRWL92JxI[/video]
There was a key chain camera on the booster looking forward. The link for the video is here. The lift-off is about 1 and 1/2 minutes into the video. A few seconds after the glider separation upon booster parachute ejection, you can hear the motor on the glider ignite. The booster parachute is large so it takes awhile to land. The booster actually landed upright, but then fell over. This can be seen on the video.
[video=youtube_share;BKi9AsStSdM]https://youtu.be/BKi9AsStSdM[/video]
There was also a key chain camera on the glider (orbiter) looking aft. The motor can be seen firing on the glider, but it is not very pronounced. I had hoped that the motor would give some air speed to glider, so that the glider would fly better, but alas the glider is just too heavy and still landed in pancake mode. There was no damage to either the booster or glider.
[video=youtube_share;6apRWL92JxI]https://youtu.be/6apRWL92JxI[/video]
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