I guess I should have posted this in the low power forums. This is possibly the most addicting hobby I have started.
There is one concern about the long thin tube. Ejection charge. Will the charge be strong enough to fill and deploy with all that area to fill. Or will it shoot out the streamer like a rifle shot?
Will be fun to find out.
I fly a micro-Mean Machine based on two 18" BT-5s that separate in the middle to tumble recover. It goes surprisingly high on an A3 or A10 and puts on a great show, it goes straight up where you point it and always has a "perfect" flight. I've probably flown the thing nearly two dozen times now with only one body seperation failure resulting in a nosedive(body coupler was too tight), which only resulted in a loss of about 2" of body tube. I also use two launch lugs, one mounted near the fins and another about 8" further up. I also wouldnt worry about a baffle or wadding, i've never put wadding in mine and the standard estes shock cord rubber is still A-OK.
I should have asked this in the low power forums. Sorry if I started a bunch of confusion.
Its funny that you posted this, as about a week before your original post, I started the exact same project, a BT5 MM. I built it the same time I was building a full size Mean Machine. The big one for me, the "Mini" for my 4 year old son. We launched them both last Friday, the full size on an E9-6 and the Mini on a A10-3T. Both flew great.
The Mini has a 1 1/4" X 16" streamer for recovery, and it seemed to work well.
Its funny that you posted this, as about a week before your original post, I started the exact same project, a BT5 MM. I built it the same time I was building a full size Mean Machine. The big one for me, the "Mini" for my 4 year old son. We launched them both last Friday, the full size on an E9-6 and the Mini on a A10-3T. Both flew great.
The Mini has a 1 1/4" X 16" streamer for recovery, and it seemed to work well.
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