MDRA ESL 236 -- who's coming out this weekend?

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Bat-mite

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I'll be there Saturday with my Formula 75 and Scorpion, both on 38mm Loki motors.

Tom, Bob and I will be having a mini-Higgs Farm drag race from the A rack.
 
I'll be there Sunday flying my Formula 150 on an Aerotech L1150 red. This will be my first attempt at using an Aerotech reload in CTI 75mm motor hardware.
 
I plan to do ejection charge tests on BourbonRoc, it’s almost flyable.
 
I'm planning on being there on Saturday. I have my newly finished Minnie Magg, and I have just finished up my first fiberglass rocket a Wildman Punisher which should be ready for a little spin after some testing.
 
Ill be there Sunday with Blue Thunder on a warp none motor, first flight of mini higgs farm rocket, and a test flight on mini missile using electronic deployment
 
A little Saturday action below. The Q motor test will be tomorrow (drat!), but here is Tom's "Funnel Cone" from today. Sorry for the overexposed images. I had the camera on manual so that I could auto-wind, but I forgot to set the aperture.

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And Tom, Bob and I had a mini-Higgs Farm drag race.

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A little Saturday action below. The Q motor test will be tomorrow (drat!), but here is Tom's "Funnel Cone" from today. Sorry for the overexposed images. I had the camera on manual so that I could auto-wind, but I forgot to set the aperture.

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And Tom, Bob and I had a mini-Higgs Farm drag race.

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Nice, I'm gonna launch a mini higgs rocket tomorrow. If anyone wants to do a drag race tomorrow I'd be done with that.
 
Scott,
For the folks who couldnt be there, give them the dimension of this beast...its a little difficult
to tell from the video.
:)

There's another thread on it in the Research forum. 8" case, 7 grains, about 60" long (I think), white thunder-type propellant.
 
There's another thread on it in the Research forum. 8" case, 7 grains, about 60" long (I think), white thunder-type propellant.

Close. 8" ID (8.6" +/- OD???) case over 8' tall. (12' from the ground to the top of the threaded rods sticking up), 7 grains 12" long. Still waiting for much of the data but the pressure transducer showed a burn length of 4.2 seconds with max chamber pressure of 800 psi.

You had to be there, the video does not do the roar of the motor or the look of the flame justice. The second video gets close on the flame but the Mach diamonds from the flight line were incredible. Hopefully someone got some good pictures.
 
Close. 8" ID (8.6" +/- OD???) case over 8' tall. (12' from the ground to the top of the threaded rods sticking up), 7 grains 12" long. Still waiting for much of the data but the pressure transducer showed a burn length of 4.2 seconds with max chamber pressure of 800 psi.

You had to be there, the video does not do the roar of the motor or the look of the flame justice. The second video gets close on the flame but the Mach diamonds from the flight line were incredible. Hopefully someone got some good pictures.

Great burn - Nice job! Here are my pics.

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