martinjaymckee
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So what do you get when you combine the love of birds, rockets, and electronics with a rather unfortunate sense of humor? Well, this is what I got!
The "Mad Duck" is a bit over two-feet long, based on BT80 tubing. I designed a small board to mount a 160mAh LiPo battery and constant current LED driver and used two ultra-bright red LEDs for eyes. It's a bit hard to see in the pictures, but impossible to miss in person. With a home-made ripstop parachute and Nomex parachute protector it is still light enough to fly ( only just ) on a C11-3. OpenRocket has it flying well, as is, on up to an F50 if I were in a particularly evil mood and, with a bit of nose weight, maybe, even on a 24-mm G. But surely it's not worth upsetting the poultry that much.
Anyone else run a-fowl of similar leanings?
Martin Jay McKee
The "Mad Duck" is a bit over two-feet long, based on BT80 tubing. I designed a small board to mount a 160mAh LiPo battery and constant current LED driver and used two ultra-bright red LEDs for eyes. It's a bit hard to see in the pictures, but impossible to miss in person. With a home-made ripstop parachute and Nomex parachute protector it is still light enough to fly ( only just ) on a C11-3. OpenRocket has it flying well, as is, on up to an F50 if I were in a particularly evil mood and, with a bit of nose weight, maybe, even on a 24-mm G. But surely it's not worth upsetting the poultry that much.
Anyone else run a-fowl of similar leanings?
Martin Jay McKee
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