Can propellant types be mixed?

stealth6 said:

Or you could cluster different motors. I recently did one that had three Skidmarks surrounding a Red longburn in the center. All fired off the pad, and then as the skids burn out, the red motor keeps burning. It's pretty cool.

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Here's a photo of something similar done with air-started sparkies:


You can also see it in the following video at about 5 minutes and 40 seconds in:

[video=youtube;4YvrKPFjNx0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YvrKPFjNx0[/video]

-- Roger

jadebox said:

Here's a photo of something similar done with air-started sparkies:

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You can also see it in the following video at about 5 minutes and 40 seconds in:

[video=youtube;4YvrKPFjNx0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YvrKPFjNx0[/video]

-- Roger

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Wow! That is nice!

@DeeRoc29
That's it! That is awesome! How did you do it? It didn't look like any of that was commercial.

BuiltFromTrash said:

@DeeRoc29
That's it! That is awesome! How did you do it? It didn't look like any of that was commercial.

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It was a research motor, as we're the couple others I've made using Rick's idea. I wouldn't expect commercial manufacturers to produce such a thing. Cool effect when done right, though.

stealth6 said:

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Wicked!!

I remember one of the coolest night launches I've seen was a flight by Tim Ziegenbein from Leading Edge. He flew an upscale mega mosquito-type rocket on a central blue motor, then airstarted a bunch of sparkies around that. Add in all the color-changing LEDs on the rocket and it was awesome!!

With clustering you can achieve some pretty cool effects! I mixed a central I blue and two F skidmarks for a cool flight. It starts at 2:56.

[video=youtube;Bscl1EAQMM8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bscl1EAQMM8[/video]

That video is very cool, very well done!