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Normally I keep quiet about new products until I release them.
This is the first product that I've begun discussing this openly during development, partly because I myself introduced it at a couple of NAR Annual meetings and there was pretty intense interest and partly because I really needed everyone's help in making sure it would work well and be really easy and reliable.
While it demonstrates how much simpler secondary deployment can be, there's an inevitable amount of "complication" still involved with this product: how well the product works depends partly on how the rocket is built, the chute chosen, the packing, the ejection charge, the timing. It's still just one element (albeit a very carefully engineered one) in your overall deployment system.
In the User Guide, I'll list and illustrate what we've learned in clear terms, but I'll also encourage everyone to take responsibility for re-thinking your rocket deployments with Chute Release in mind.
For instance, I find myself thinking two things that I rarely/never thought before as I watch flights end:
1. "That chute could have opened a lot lower. That's some unnecessary parachute drift."
2. "That rocket could have landed more softly. I should use a bigger chute."
And also a third, occasionally:
3. "That rocket weather vanes into the wind so much that I should choose a higher deployment and let it drift back more to me."
Everything's still a go for December.
[Knock on wood.]
This is the first product that I've begun discussing this openly during development, partly because I myself introduced it at a couple of NAR Annual meetings and there was pretty intense interest and partly because I really needed everyone's help in making sure it would work well and be really easy and reliable.
While it demonstrates how much simpler secondary deployment can be, there's an inevitable amount of "complication" still involved with this product: how well the product works depends partly on how the rocket is built, the chute chosen, the packing, the ejection charge, the timing. It's still just one element (albeit a very carefully engineered one) in your overall deployment system.
In the User Guide, I'll list and illustrate what we've learned in clear terms, but I'll also encourage everyone to take responsibility for re-thinking your rocket deployments with Chute Release in mind.
For instance, I find myself thinking two things that I rarely/never thought before as I watch flights end:
1. "That chute could have opened a lot lower. That's some unnecessary parachute drift."
2. "That rocket could have landed more softly. I should use a bigger chute."
And also a third, occasionally:
3. "That rocket weather vanes into the wind so much that I should choose a higher deployment and let it drift back more to me."
Everything's still a go for December.
[Knock on wood.]
NVM my anagram humor as I think I forgot to take my atypical psychotrope today.:drool: Hmmmmm, or did I? :cyclops:
