[emoji482][emoji482]
TRF Summer Build Off: "Jack-in-the-Box"
- Thread starter Daddyisabar
- Start date
Help Support The Rocketry Forum:
[emoji482][emoji482]
Chances of flying at CRASH are one in a million, so there is still a chance!
Talked with the Tripoli Prefect and there is an even greater chance of flying at Hartsel the next day. YIPPEE!:smile::smile::smile:
Talked with the Tripoli Prefect and there is an even greater chance of flying at Hartsel the next day. YIPPEE!:smile::smile::smile:
COOL. Baby CSM will be awesome! BIG CSM will be AWESOMER!
For those who may be confused, click on Dick Stafford's "The Original Rocket Dungeon" blog link above and look up Chesapeake Sea Monster. An Ekranoplan model using 11 motors, eight of them tractor, the other three mid cant! Way too naughty for TRF!
Ha, I was just reading Dick's blog and never connect his name with rstaff3 until just now... 
Yes, CSM is awesome, in either small or large variety.
Yes, CSM is awesome, in either small or large variety.
BIG CSM makes Jack in the Box look like the child's plaything it is.
You will never tame the monster!
- Joined
- Mar 27, 2013
- Messages
- 22,537
- Reaction score
- 14,953
Sooner or later, Thirsty is going to need to pop up over here.
All together now: THIRSTY! THIRSTY! WE NEED THIRSTY!
Thirsty helps to keep things weird!
Last edited:
- Joined
- Mar 27, 2013
- Messages
- 22,537
- Reaction score
- 14,953
Now all we need is a little ball that bounces to the tune...
THIRSTY! THIRSTY! WE NEED THIRSTY! Thirsty helps to keeps things weird!
THIRSTY! THIRSTY! WE NEED THIRSTY! Thirsty helps to keeps things weird!
THIRSTY! THIRSTY! WE NEED THIRSTY! Thirsty a rocketeer with the beard!
THIRSTY! THIRSTY! WE NEED THIRSTY! Thirsty helps to keeps things weird!
THIRSTY! THIRSTY! WE NEED THIRSTY! Thirsty helps to keeps things weird!
THIRSTY! THIRSTY! WE NEED THIRSTY! Thirsty a rocketeer with the beard!
Another triumph for forward or mid canted, tractor motors. Now that the Baby has flown it is time for the MONSTER!!!
Hopefully Sunday the 17th!
Both CRASH and Tripoli canceled due to fire bans Not looking good here in the Great American desert for a rocket launch any time soon Either have to go rogue or hitch the oxen to the wagon and head back to Eastern Kansas.
Not looking good here in the Great American desert for a rocket launch any time soon Either have to go rogue or hitch the oxen to the wagon and head back to Eastern Kansas.
rstaff3
Oddroc-eteer
- Joined
- Jan 17, 2009
- Messages
- 11,763
- Reaction score
- 44
That sucks. My launch is this weekend. Since Saturday, I've been checking at least twice a day to see which day will have the better weather. It has been flopping between rainy both days, OK one but not the other, and both good. Good meaning there would at most be scattered thunder boomers in the late day. Checking, as always, is a fool's errand. I will have to wait until Friday PM to get a better feel. Barring something that is not at all on my radar, the CSM should fly at some point. FINALLY!
YIPPEE! You are so lucky to live in an area of high humidity and the lovely green green grass of home. Best of luck with the MONSTER!
Maybe I can get some old dudes out to a park for some flying as well.
I guess Thirsty doesn't live here anymore Maybe we used up all the PODS, I mean PUNS. Maybe he just needs the PERFECT CHEER![video=youtube;NFAcxO9ss7M]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFAcxO9ss7M[/video]
rstaff3
Oddroc-eteer
- Joined
- Jan 17, 2009
- Messages
- 11,763
- Reaction score
- 44
Well, I'm gonna continue my disgraceful hijack of this thread. The CSM flew, and flew well! I'm beginning to think large clustered airplanes are too easy. It's like they fly themselves.
Ignitions duties were handle by three soldered igniter assemblies using the old Q2G2's and the club's Cluster Buck. The ground level wind was still and the boost was arrow straight. All eleven motors ignited. Ejection occurred around apogee and it landed very close by. The large rear fin set popped off...no surprise here. There was a little soot here and there, but baby wipes took care of that. I got Peter to shoot video it so that should show up within a few weeks.
Ignitions duties were handle by three soldered igniter assemblies using the old Q2G2's and the club's Cluster Buck. The ground level wind was still and the boost was arrow straight. All eleven motors ignited. Ejection occurred around apogee and it landed very close by. The large rear fin set popped off...no surprise here. There was a little soot here and there, but baby wipes took care of that. I got Peter to shoot video it so that should show up within a few weeks.
Yippee! Can't wait to see the video! Congratulations!
It telescopes so fins will just get in the way. Pop out fins would be cool. A clear fin can on the outside would make look safer
Clustered airplanes are not that hard. Just an ignition issue I say. Same with Jack in the box. The ekranoplan is super cool.
Similar threads
