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weird. Very good, but weird.
Great video, BTW
Great video, BTW
weird. Very good, but weird.
Great video, BTW
Not sure where I read about it here on TRF, but there is a method of recovery called something like "back sliding/gliding."That recovery throws me. How does a rocket which is stable on boost, after burning off all the propellant ( which if anything should make it MORE stable/nose heavy) transition to horizontal spin recovery? It obviously DID happen, and given such a nice rocket I am glad as I am sure you are that it happpened, but I don't understand it. Did the motor mount shift back?
Of course, the irony in all this is that you, the glider meister should be the one to end up with an unintentional glide recovery!
There was little to no wind and I did not have a destabilizing/pitching action either to put it into a sideways angle of attack. So did I get lucky?
Frank
Just remembered the idea you are thinking of was explored as "Roton" a 1990's self landing rocket/helicopter hybridVery interesting stuff. It begs the question: Could a rocket be designed to induce spin for recovery?
Okay in that case I’m not really sure what your talking about to be honestI think what was being asked was could you reliably induce a rocket to spin sideways as a stable recovery mechanism, not a helicopter type recovery, but similar to the super roc sideways glide recovery, could you induce a spin to help stabilize sideways and recover softly.
Okay in that case I’m not really sure what your talking about to be honest
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