Makes me wish I was heading to Airfest... so many nice projects heading that way. Nice build, looking forward to it's completion.
DRAGON64 said:Makes me wish I was heading to Airfest... so many nice projects heading that way. Nice build, looking forward to it's completion.
The Wildcat flew great at Air Fest. Adept22 altimeter beeped out 3531' altitude on the J415R motor. Unfortunately the main came out at apogee so I had about a mile walk to recover it. I wasn't able to get any photos of the launch due to some folks walking in front of me from the model rocket pads. I do have onboard video and as soon as I get it compiled I will post on YouTube. I flew it again on a J415W on Sunday in a drag race with my friend Dave White's Little J. Yes it is a Kansas University rocket. His I motor came up to pressure much faster than my J so we won the drag race but I caught him at about 500' and topped out at 3856'. Unfortunately for him his shock cord snapped and the booster came in ballistic. I had put some more tape on the nose cone for this launch and the nose cone stayed on at apogee and the dual deploy worked with the main at 600' as planned.
Thank you to everyone on here that has helped with fillets and general HPR building tips. I wouldn't have been able to build this rocket and successfully fly it for my L2 cert without it. Also thanks to Kevin Trojanowski (Troj) for being my prefect and signing the papers. Hopefully I will receive my new TRA card with level 2 on it next week! I am hoping to fly it again at the November Distant Thunder launch on a K motor. Maybe I can join the mile high club!
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