13mm Fiberglassed AIM-120 AMRAAM W/ TTW Fins.

I've decided to finish this one up ASAP without Tip to Tipping the Fins. I was only going to do that out of Spite anyway and the weather is getting to be flying weather soon, so it's time to prime!!!

Got primer, then bondo, then more primer on there today.

She flies great like all my rockets!!!

I just used Testors brush on paint to make the nose cone white. Then I took it outside and clear coated it. The clear melts the brush stroke lines in the Testors, so it should look ok when it dries. I'm out of white spray paint, but I'll re-do it when I get some.
It only went about 70'-80' high on the 1/2A3, so later on today I hope to fly it on an A10-3T.
I also took yesterdays flagging tape Streamer out and gave it a nylon ripstop streamer with drag slits cut into it.

Got her dressed up.

Nicely done!

I give a lot of credit to you guys that can do such fine, detailed work on such small rockets. And glassing! Outstanding!


Later!

--Coop

Coop said:

Nicely done!

I give a lot of credit to you guys that can do such fine, detailed work on such small rockets. And glassing! Outstanding!


Later!

--Coop

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Thanks Coop!

That is a really cool rocket. I'm glad you decided to show the build!

rocketed said:

That is a really cool rocket. I'm glad you decided to show the build!

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Thanks!
This rocket is really fun, and small and durable enough to keep on my desk.

Another cool part is that I now have a rocket that I can safely fly and recover in my backyard if I use the 1/2A3 motor.:wink:

The sim for this one was done on my old computer, and I never uploaded the ork. file to anything, so I'll have to re-create it. It's not that I need a sim, but I've come to enjoy making them and working in Openrocket.
It's especially fun when you have a completed rocket to use since you don't need to guess at the expected weight or CG.

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Put her up on an A10 today. Arrow straight flight to about 300ft.

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TopRamen said:

Put her up on an A10 today. Arrow straight flight to about 300ft.

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Awesome! It's really cool that you've taken HPR techniques and designs and successfully scaled them down to LPR. Rails, fiberglass, T2T (almost) TTW fins, etc. It's a really cool direction to take the hobby.

Nate

Thanks Nate.

Very cool! How much nose weight did you end up with? Looks like it flies very well and the TTW fins and fiberglass are awesome.

SCrocketfan said:

Very cool! How much nose weight did you end up with? Looks like it flies very well and the TTW fins and fiberglass are awesome.

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Thanks.
The Nose Cone in its entirety weighs 14 grams.