June Best Rocket Competition LPR

[Pantherjon]

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This is the official location of The Rocketry Forum Best Rocket Competition. This is a monthly event to show off your "stuff" and find out who has THE BEST ROCKET OF THE MONTH! When entering, make sure you follow the criteria listed below and you will do fine. From the 21st(or there about) until the end of the month we'll be polling to see who should win the Best Rocket Competition.

Double check to make sure you entering in the correct 'power level' thread! Only ONE entry per person per month(no entering BOTH LPR and MPR/HPR in a single given month!). The thread titles will reflect the power level: XXX Best Rocket Competition LPR or XXX Best Rocket Competition MPR/HPR.


Da Rulez

1. Header of picture should include, name, what kit or was it custom, LPR, MPR or HPR. Example: LPR Estes Hijinx..Put this in the 'title' block when posting.
2. A BRIEF description of rocket details. Anything that would make it apparent to somebody that yours is THE BEST.
3. Only ONE entry per month.
4. Please no extended off topic conversations.
5. Rockets made at any period of time may be used.Rocket needs to be in your possession/fleet at the time of the competition!
5A. Rockets entered MUST have at least one successful flight. Not simulated, but real world flying through the sky type..with successful recovery.
6. Rocket may be entered into the current months competition only ONCE! Rocket may be entered into a following months competition if it fits the given category.
7. If there is a monthly specified type of contest (such as red, white and blue themed), you can only enter rockets that are applicable.
8. Entries will be taken first 3 weeks of month and after the 21st of every month the contest closes.
9. The last week of the month we will be polling on who should win in each class.
10. Winners get bragging rights for a month!



Theme

Pretty easy theme this month: Scale or Semi Scale Military Crayons!....Oh, wait, the military doesn't use crayons, my bad! Seriously the theme for Jun is Scale or Semi-Scale Military Craft..Can be missiles, rockets(duh!), or planes! Just remember Rule #5a!

So, show us your awesome builds!


Remember detail, details, details! So don't be shy, include extra photos of the little bits that make YOUR model extra special!
If you entry is a kit, let us know who's kit it is!

PRIZE(S)

Our awesome sponsor this month is Pemberton Technologies! Rocketry like never before! And the prize is a $30 dollar shopping spree at Pemberton Technologies!

So, let's get those entries in!

[Pem Tech]

What is this?
Already five entries in the MPR/HPR contest and none for the LPR???

Come on, out with it...
Let's see those LPR builds!

[Pantherjon]

Okay folks let me get the ball rolling here!

Here for your viewing pleasure is my Estes Bullpup..Built fairly early in my BARdom but turned out looking pretty good..Has flown numerous times on D12's and once on an E9-6, got some pretty good altitude on that flight!



So, come on, drink some coffee and join in in the fun!

[adrian]

This is my model of the Gosling Test Vehicle. I found the original on display at Waltham Abbey Royal Gunpowder Mill, formerly a place where explosives were made, now a museum. Since their products included propellants for rockets, the musuem has a rocketry section and this thing was sitting outside it. There's no information, but Gosling was a booster used for the Thunderbird missile so presumably the test vehicle was used to see if it worked.

The model is scratch-built, based around BT-55 equivalent. Fins are laminated balsa. The fins slightly overhang the transition to the wider body section at the back - this is intentional, the fins do that on the real one too! The nose is a transition to BT-5 with a rolled paper transition and a small rolled paper cone on the end of the BT-5.

The rocket has flown once on an A8-3, on which it did not go very far; and several times on B6-4's, which gave a much more respectable performance. It's currently under repair, having had a fin knocked off by a hard landing on 5th June but it should be operational again soon - I'm going back to Waltham Abbey early in July and this model is going with me to fly there... Meanwhile the picture shows it ready to fly on Fairlie Moor, where numerous motors including the Gosling were static-tested.

[judo]

Here's my entry: The Launch Pad ALARM (Air Launched Anti-Radiation Missile) Prototype. It flies on a pair of D12's. According to EMRR it has flown twice but I think it's a little more than that. Photos by Jimmy Yawn.

Here's the link for the video of that flight:
http://www.nefar.net/gallery/2009-02...aver-D12x2.wmv

Looks like it needs more delay and more parachute. Ya think?

[rosko_racer]

My entry for this month's contest: my scale V-2 based on Centuri's KS-19 plans from JIMZ. Purchased the NC and tailcone from Balsa Machining. Painted it following the V-2 Number 2 launched at White Sands on April 16, 1946. Krylons paints for the primer, yellow and black, and printed the stripes Silver Metallic with my ALPS. It has flown a couple of times on B6-4s.

Edit: if you would like to know any details on what is going on picture #4 click here....

[McKailas Dad]

This undetonated missle, the 'Infinity' was found floating in the debris field just off Section 4 of the Gamma Quadrant.

Manufactured by the Intergalactic Alliance, the 'Infinity' is constructed of a pulsed laser vaporization produced single wall carbon nanotube composite. An Adamantium foil covers the composite. The launch deployment tubes are made of pure Adamantium.

The failed GPS (Galactic Positioning Sensor) showed the missle was headed to the planet Xrghtung, in an attempt to finally destroy Evil Emporer Zurg.

Unfortunatly, the warhead, containing large amounts of the highly explosive PemTechium, was not found. Presumably scavenged, PemTechium fetches high dollars on the Black Hole market.

The propulsion system had consisted of a MEMs based Nanoparticle Field Extraction Thruster, or NanoFET. It has since been converted to run on the more readily available A, B, or C grade Estes fuel modules...

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Ok, ok, it was a kids plastic squirt gun I made into a rocket! Lexan fins, aluminum LLs, and plumbers putty for (adjustable)nose weight. Check out the quick-connects at both the NC and BT (fishing leaders). I crimped a 1gram sinker to the short leader, and epoxied it into the top of the NC, to cover the 'squirt' hole. 18" GB chute. Its been launched on A8-3s and B6-4s, but I'm nervous of sending it up on C's...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=<object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/emgZ5fM5j2U&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xd0d0d0&hl=en_ US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/emgZ5fM5j2U&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xd0d0d0&hl=en_ US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>

Whatchya think?

[Pantherjon]

Glad to see the number of entries! Just a reminder of those on the fence: Entry period closes at midnight(or when I get home, whichever is later) Monday June 21st! Voting will commence shortly afterwards..So get your entries in!

[ScrapDaddy]

DId you know that the 3FNC is actually a retro version of the V-2 (it looks more like the submarine launched version of the V-2 (never built ), In fact, it looks so much like it that i will enter it in this contest!
It is a 2.6", 18mm powered version of the famous first Pem-tech kit, the 3FNC. It has had 1 flight, on a C6-5, boost was slow, and delay was a bit long, normally i would have a flight video, but my little deckhands had school tomorrow, and pushing the Launch button with my feet sounded like a bad idea, oh well...


SD, an absolute PRO at Procrastination

P.s. , if it doesn't qualify for a V-2 scale, enter it as a model of the MORE famous Pemberton 3FNC

EDIT: Added video, ASTRE launch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUWiokxfH9g

[jpaw33]

This is my Bomarc clone made with all the parts coming from Semroc and the decals from Sandman.The silver is Mono-coat film.It only has 1 flight which was Very close to becoming it's first and last,Lets just say"late ejection charge"!!!!!!Good luck Everybody! John

[ScrapDaddy]

Whatchya think?

I think that's disturbing

That's the hardest I've laughed in a while...

SD

[rseazk5]

Here is my AIM-54 Phoenix guided missile family. I always thought this was a cool looking rocket, I built the center one (Baby Phoenix- 24mm- http://www.rocketreviews.com/reviews..._phoenix.shtml) first. On a 24mm – D Engine it screams almost out of sight. After building the “Baby Phoenix” I decided that I should build the Estes version (24mm). After this one, I built the Micro (MMX) Phoenix.

Thanks,
Ray

[mjennings]

My entry is an Estes Maxi V-2, that really likes AT E30's. If you want to get Technical it's not a V-2 it is an A-4. Which is what the V-2 was called before the Propaganda ministry named it the Vergeltungswaffe Zwei. It's in the roll pattern used on the first successful test launch on Oct 3 1942. This launch is also regarded as the first man made object to cross into space. The roll pattern and Frau der Mond is based on the info in Hölsken, Dieter's "V-Missiles of the Third Reich: The V-1 and V-2."

not the best 4 view of the roll pattern but quick and dirty is better than not entering!

The funny looking object in the fore ground of the 3rd picture is a dragonfly

[Pantherjon]

BZZZZZZZZZZZZT! Entry period is now officially closed!

Polls to be posted momentarily!

Thanks for participating, and may the BEST rocket win!

Which of course will be mine! This is a subliminal message for you to vote for my rocket!

[McKailas Dad]

I think that's disturbing

That's the hardest I've laughed in a while...

SD

And just what the heck does that mean? What do you find so hilarious? You best not be disrespectin' my missle! .....( )

[Pantherjon]

And just what the heck does that mean? What do you find so hilarious? You best not be disrespectin' my missle! .....( )

'Mr Randomness' strikes again!

[McKailas Dad]

Ok, you guys got me confused. SD's ROFL

That's the hardest I've laughed in a while...

and now this?

'Mr Randomness' strikes again!

Now what is that supposed to mean?

I guess, either good or bad, its free advertising for my entry, the Infinity