Winston
Lorenzo von Matterhorn
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I disagree, big low and slow is just as good to me...I appreciate large and light airframes instead of using hardware store materials....and have been experimenting with foam construction on 7.5" diameter rockets lately...Why is it cheating to smartly design a light airframe and use an appropriate motor?
I think low and slow is great. You can get photos easily.
There are many paths to rocketry Zen. As long as it is safe and it makes them happy, great. It has to be safe, the minimum distance for an O has to be more than the worse case potential arc of that thing. I am amazed they could make a flight worthy airframe that size at that weight. Impressive engineering in my book.
Although it is pretty cool, i still think it pales in comparison to the current record holder Steve Eves and his Saturn V, at 1:10 scale it was 38ft tall and weighed over 1600lbs and took 1 "P" and 8 "N" motors to a little over 4400ft.
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