Dollar General Easter Egg

[RodRocket]

Found an Easter Egg that is about 4 inches tall and 3 inches at widest point.

Was a candy container and pops apart just like the little easter eggs. There is a small molding area at the base that is the same size as a BT-50 tube. So getting a tube into the egg shouldn't be difficult.

Would it fly fine with long trailing fins and motor and the rest of the gear up in the egg? I know balance and stability would have to be worked out.

Or maybe keep it super simple and have motor eject and tumble recovery?

Dang now I can't walk through a store without thinking 'wonder how that would fly?'

See ya,
Rod

[brianc]

Plastic eggs make great fodder for rocket materials.

A few years ago, there was an article in Sport Rocketry about an egg
using plastic sporks for fins and (helicopter) recovery.

I have a giant egg that is designated to be made into one of the
radioactive chicken rocket (that I can't seem to find the thread/reference for).
It has three legs popping out of the egg for fins. Anyone have a pointer?

[Scotty Dog]

I saw these the last time I was in Hobby Lobby.
I wanted to get them BAD.
Im gona gamble and wait and see if there will be any left after easter.(in the store, not on line)
May get them for a bargin.
You could build a HPR egg with these.
Can you imagine the size of the chicken that laid these brutes....


http://shop.hobbylobby.com/store/ite...?ItemId=192596

[jeff_in_AZ]

Plastic eggs make great fodder for rocket materials.

A few years ago, there was an article in Sport Rocketry about an egg
using plastic sporks for fins and (helicopter) recovery.

I have a giant egg that is designated to be made into one of the
radioactive chicken rocket (that I can't seem to find the thread/reference for).
It has three legs popping out of the egg for fins. Anyone have a pointer?

I think that was on EMRR, search for Los Alamos Chicken.

[brianc]

I think that was on EMRR, search for Los Alamos Chicken.

You are correct, sir! http://www.rocketreviews.com/scratch...jeff-lane.html

THANX!

[Micromeister]

Found an Easter Egg that is about 4 inches tall and 3 inches at widest point.

Was a candy container and pops apart just like the little easter eggs. There is a small molding area at the base that is the same size as a BT-50 tube. So getting a tube into the egg shouldn't be difficult.

Would it fly fine with long trailing fins and motor and the rest of the gear up in the egg? I know balance and stability would have to be worked out.

Or maybe keep it super simple and have motor eject and tumble recovery?

Dang now I can't walk through a store without thinking 'wonder how that would fly?'

See ya,
Rod

Run a BT-50 in it use the upper section as the nosecone with a long slid-in coupler to the body tube in the base. D12, wadding and chute in the lower tube along with the shock cord.
Should fly fine with long trailing fins and be bit of excess body tube.

Did sort of like that with a 6"x4" Styrofoam eggs. Fly's pertty will on a D12 with bail-out parachuting chicken Fins are .050" Clear Polycarbonate.

[RodRocket]

I'm thinking long fins like on a Mosquito.

I have a BT-50 the length of the egg with a wooden plug at the nose. Will try different engines with adaptors. Have one made up for A size motors and can go up to D's.

Motor eject for this egg and a tumble recovery. Just want to keep it super simple.

Now figuring out how I want the fins. May copy the mosquito fins and try through the shell fins.

See ya,
Rod

[RocketManDan]

You guys are a bunch of egg heads! LOL!!

Rockets on the brain...

[RodRocket]

Ok After a little time and quite frankly been busy with other projects, getting back to this egg thing. Been tossing around the idea of the coupler idea from Micro above. I took the tube I had plugged and trimmed it down to roughly inch and a half long keeping the plug, then take a second tube and glue in the coupler. Then I can glue the plugged tube into the upper half of the egg so that upon ejection the two egg halves separate and the streamers can be packed into the shell area. I will have to sand off the little ridge that keeps the egg halves together but seems like this might work great.

So plan of attack to build this egg is to glue coupler into main tube, Then snap egg together and glue the nose section tube into upper egg half, snapping egg together will help ensure that tube is centered.

Once upper section is dry, pop egg apart and add thrust ring up to the coupler in main tube. Main tube will be left long for final trimming or even for fins below the egg because the main tune will extend far enough that it should allow enough to glue fins to. Thinking it would be tough to get fins glued to the plastic egg.

Other details will be worked out as I go. But I think it should come along nicely.

Will try and get pics of finished egg.

See ya,
Rod