andrewpjudge
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Hello all I pretty new to Rocketry, I used to fly kits years back with my dad and have started doing it all again with my 3 year old son who loves it as much as I do. Anyway, my question is with regards to the above model.
I am building the Estes V2 kit I have at the moment C11-3s to use for the first flight but my worry is the height it could go. Where I live I don't have huge open fields and the ones I do tend to have lots of trees. How can I keep the model flying at the lowest possible altitude? I have seen a video where someone uses a C6-3 but they're 18mm and not 24mm so how can I make a 18mm motor fit into a 24mm housing?
Ideally I would like to rocket to stay around the 200ft mark like Helicat and Firestreak SST any hight and I need to try and explain to my son why I can't get it back (like his parachute man from his Freefall rocket) so any information on alternative motors I would be thankful for. Also any fun suggestions on kits I can build too would be great.
Thanks in advance
Andrew
I am building the Estes V2 kit I have at the moment C11-3s to use for the first flight but my worry is the height it could go. Where I live I don't have huge open fields and the ones I do tend to have lots of trees. How can I keep the model flying at the lowest possible altitude? I have seen a video where someone uses a C6-3 but they're 18mm and not 24mm so how can I make a 18mm motor fit into a 24mm housing?
Ideally I would like to rocket to stay around the 200ft mark like Helicat and Firestreak SST any hight and I need to try and explain to my son why I can't get it back (like his parachute man from his Freefall rocket) so any information on alternative motors I would be thankful for. Also any fun suggestions on kits I can build too would be great.
Thanks in advance
Andrew