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After the kids went to bed last night, I was goofing off in rocksim and noticed with a fully stock alpha III Model (yes one of the old school models) and an AT D21 motor you can almost reach supersonic speed. Rock Sim Showed max velocity > 730 mph with an apogee of >2300ft. I suspect with the solid one piece fin can and low cross sectional area the model could handle it, This might be a good candidate for an altitude record, only thing is would there be a chance that I'd ever see this thing again?
For kicks this got me wondering, what if i pull the motor mount and sanded the ID of the fin can a bit so I could fit a 24mm motor in there, so I loaded an AT-F39T and added 20g of ballast to the nose. Still stable and shows Max-v of 776.56 and altitude of >4700 ft. I believe under normal circumstances and temperature that would be considered > Mach 1.
While interesting on paper, would there be any realistic probability of ever seeing these models again? Has anyone recovered a model of this scale after that kind of flight?
For kicks this got me wondering, what if i pull the motor mount and sanded the ID of the fin can a bit so I could fit a 24mm motor in there, so I loaded an AT-F39T and added 20g of ballast to the nose. Still stable and shows Max-v of 776.56 and altitude of >4700 ft. I believe under normal circumstances and temperature that would be considered > Mach 1.
While interesting on paper, would there be any realistic probability of ever seeing these models again? Has anyone recovered a model of this scale after that kind of flight?