mcderek
Free Flight Rocketeer
Level 3 Tube rockets? I used tube rockets for my Level One and Two, so why not Level Three? Anyone have links to Level Three capable tube rockets? Just looking for ideas and inspiration
Level 3 Tube rockets? I used tube rockets for my Level One and Two, so why not Level Three? Anyone have links to Level Three capable tube rockets? Just looking for ideas and inspiration
Err, actually on point 2 - fibreglass wont help much beyond Mach .8Long story short, you can fibreglass pretty much any tube to achieve the outcome you are after.
Two opportunities.
1. Attachment of tube fins to body tube - epoxy fillets at point of connection between fins and airframe, and if going for the full Monty, with a complete encirclement of airframe with tube fins - looks very sexy - add fillets where tube fins touch as well.
2. Keep flight below Mach .8 at about that point dynamic pressure builds up in the tube fins and wants to help expand them outwards - solution, fibreglass.
3. Because I prefer to over deliver.
I only have experience with 6 bluetube for this purpose, so, you guessed it, fibreglass lamination
Good luck and have fun.
Thanks, Fred! There is some documentation online. In the old EMRR articles, just look up Galadriel and the article with my documentation should pop up.I tapped for Jack Caynon Jr.'s L3-cert flight on his custom 4" tuber....was a while ago and I doubt there is any documentation online, but was a "spot-on" flight.
The one the only... PVC L-3. Lol all you want I bet this guy saved thousands.
https://www.rocketryforum.com/showthread.php?58482-Ari-s-6-quot-PVC-sewer-pipe-tube-fin-L3-rocket
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