Bkdoubleu
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I bought a 2.5" fiberglas kit from Apogee, it's from Madcow Rocketry. I used all the parts except the little wood "rotating rockets" They looked a little cheezy, so I left them off. I launched the rocket with an Econojet F20 Single use composit motor on a 1/4" rod/pad. Straight up 10 mph wind. The rocket flew 30' straight before turnigh left and then rihgt making a zig zag pattern before lawn darting into the soft hay field I was at. The rocket never tumbled but I imagine you can guess it's flight from what I described. On the instruction sheet it says the CG is 29.5" from nose cone tip. The pad weight is 2.35 #. After launching it I noticed the rod had build up some powder residue and perhaps a little paint from 3 previous launches. I did notice the rocket was very slow lifting off the pad. Like crazy slow. Given the engine I used and what I noticed from the launch rod is the flight descriptive of under powered launch?
No Sim, no video, and no I am not sure where CP is. That's why i am asking questions. I added some weight to the nose cone but have not tried to refly it. I was going to yesterday but wind was blowing 24 mph. So I scrubbed the launch. Any thoughts my fellow rocketeers?
No Sim, no video, and no I am not sure where CP is. That's why i am asking questions. I added some weight to the nose cone but have not tried to refly it. I was going to yesterday but wind was blowing 24 mph. So I scrubbed the launch. Any thoughts my fellow rocketeers?