RocketManDan
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Well now that I was able to balance my time between work and the gym I decided to spend today and make some progress on my Apogee Aspire that I am building. I had some left over 29mm body tubes and I picked up a couple of nose cones from Apogee's site. It's a very basic build, but I know I will be spending most of my time sanding matching air foils in the fins and making some really smooth and uniform fin fillets. I plan on using the epoxy clay only because I am comfortable with and it has at least a one hour work time before you notice it getting hard. I'm also going to skin the fins with copy paper...I built one before and gave to a friend, but we haven't launched it yet.
I plan on using a 4" x 56" Mylar streamer to bring it down. There was an article I read where a heat sink was used to make uniform folds in the streamer...maybe I can pick one up someplace cheap. I believe it was in one of the issues of Sports Rocketry?
One of two things will happen...I'll either lose it or destroy it when it lands. I am going go all the way and get the Apogee F10-8 for the mile high flight and a slow and steady climb...should be spectacular...
If anyone has launched this rocket or built one feel free to jump in and give your feed back...
Beautiful day outside for October...sunny and around 75...gotta love Southern CA! Oh Yeah!!
Anyway back to cutting the fins out...
I plan on using a 4" x 56" Mylar streamer to bring it down. There was an article I read where a heat sink was used to make uniform folds in the streamer...maybe I can pick one up someplace cheap. I believe it was in one of the issues of Sports Rocketry?
One of two things will happen...I'll either lose it or destroy it when it lands. I am going go all the way and get the Apogee F10-8 for the mile high flight and a slow and steady climb...should be spectacular...
If anyone has launched this rocket or built one feel free to jump in and give your feed back...
Beautiful day outside for October...sunny and around 75...gotta love Southern CA! Oh Yeah!!
Anyway back to cutting the fins out...
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