Founder, Tripoli NC
Now that I have your attention...I have a footlocker full of Estes motors, mostly C6-5's and 7's. I will offer these to any youngsters that find me at the Freedom Launch in Orangeburg, Sc over Labor Day weekend. The catch, you have to have your own rocket, no hoarding, and I would prefer you use them at the launch. If you open a pack and don't use all 3, of course you get to keep the rest. I also have a crap load of D12's, mostly zeros.
Jim "Ghost Rider" Scarpine
Made member of The Chicago Rocket Mafia
Prefect, Tripoli NC
TRA 1377
NAR 51510
L3
ICBM
VAST
QCRS
Indiana Rocketry
www.starleopard.com
High on AP and sparkies
Danget, my dad won't let me come to the freedom launch. Are you ever at Bayboro's launch? I will be there.
Matt Tripoli Junior Member# 14257
2013 motors:
AT 38-360 H178DM (283ns)
CTI Pro-29 3 Grain 138G106-14A (138ns)
CTI Pro-29 1 Grain 55F29-12A (55ns)
Estes C6-5 (9ns)
Estes B4-2 (4ns)
Total Newton Seconds for 2013: 489ns
2.4% of N5800
Largest Motor flown: Aerotech H178DM (38-360)
Founder, Tripoli NC
Not likely, great field, but crappy winds...and I hate the drive down 70. With Orangeburg, its Interstate all the way!!Originally Posted by blackbrandt
Jim "Ghost Rider" Scarpine
Made member of The Chicago Rocket Mafia
Prefect, Tripoli NC
TRA 1377
NAR 51510
L3
ICBM
VAST
QCRS
Indiana Rocketry
www.starleopard.com
Addicted to APCP
You need to build some of these
Founder, Tripoli NC
OK Tom, I give...what the heck are they??
Jim "Ghost Rider" Scarpine
Made member of The Chicago Rocket Mafia
Prefect, Tripoli NC
TRA 1377
NAR 51510
L3
ICBM
VAST
QCRS
Indiana Rocketry
www.starleopard.com
Dark Star Fanatic
Rack rockets... You just stack tons of motors and they chad stage to oblivion
Tom
NAR #83620 L2 soon to be L3
Twice-baked BAR
Is your offer only for youngsters? I will be at the Freedom Launch with mostly 18mm and 13mm models. Free C motors sounds pretty appealing to this LPR guy...
Last edited by LW Bercini; 1st August 2012 at 01:53 PM.
Lawrence William
NAR #18121 / TRA #00134
SoAR #468 / SAM #0422
Epoxy is capricious and delights in annoying me
Local TLP detail nut
WOW...that`s a new one on me.
I like it !
Paul T
ROCKETRY DELINQUENT ,I put my soul in what I do.
I built a rocket, and on the seventh day ,I rested
Level 3
CAR 1033
Manitoba Rocketry Group
CTI a better way to fly !
Founder, Tripoli NC
LW, look me up. I have plenty. Regarding a rack rocket. I cant see how that passes any safety codes, I mean hot spent caseings falling out of the sky? Am I missing something here?
Jim "Ghost Rider" Scarpine
Made member of The Chicago Rocket Mafia
Prefect, Tripoli NC
TRA 1377
NAR 51510
L3
ICBM
VAST
QCRS
Indiana Rocketry
www.starleopard.com
"Lifetime Member." Ha!
Well, it's not any worse than CHAD staging, though depending on where you fly, I guess it could be a problem.
Twice-baked BAR
I would have done that anyway. I'm looking forward to meeting fellow TRFers there.
Last edited by LW Bercini; 7th August 2012 at 04:05 AM.
Lawrence William
NAR #18121 / TRA #00134
SoAR #468 / SAM #0422
Epoxy is capricious and delights in annoying me
Twice-baked BAR
I got the biggest kick out of seeing this fly! I think I need to make one of these. Other than using spruce for the long frame pieces and using high-heat paint, what else can you tell me about the construction?You need to build some of these
Sorry I missed the Mini Max yesterday. My friend's canopy had blown over and we were scrambling to put things back in order.
Lawrence William
NAR #18121 / TRA #00134
SoAR #468 / SAM #0422
Epoxy is capricious and delights in annoying me
Addicted to APCP
The rack is 1/4 x 1/8 basswood, fins are 1/8 balsa. Body is 9" of BT-50, any nose cone will work. I use a streamer for recovery. The length of the rack pieces is the total of the length of all the booster motors + 1/2" + 1" for gluing onto the BT-50. Use another piece of BT-50 at the rear end to keep the rack aligned while gluing the runners onto the body. Do not glue to this piece of tube. Cut 4 pieces of 1/16 or 3/32 thick basswood and sand the ends to 45 deg. Glue these between the runners to support the tail end. Remove temp piece of BT-50 used as support during assembly. Add a 1/4" launch lug to one of the braces and the body tube above it. It only costs about $5 or $6 to build one of these, 4 E's cost $30 at retail so I don't look hard for them when launching. Just build several at a time
latest photo
Uh-oh...got me thinking: pods to contain little streamers for those exiting the rear of the rocket.Hmmm? A little kapton tape and kevlar....and an AltimOne!
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There comes a point in your life that looks just like all the other points you didn't notice either.
If I had a nickel for every dollar I spent on rockets, I'd have more rockets.
You may have had more fun in your life than me, but the chaos was undeniable.
Out to launch...
And a tracker!
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Tom,You need to build some of these
Can you do a build thread on that? That is pretty neat.
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Chuck Haislip
NAR/Tripoli Level 3
Level 1 - LOC Minie Magg; Level 2 - PR Broken Arrow;
Level 3 - 10 inch Nike Smoke
Ns for Year: 0 on hiatus serving our GREAT country in Kuwait
My rockets usually fly naked. If they survive, they earn their paint.
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Twice-baked BAR
Jim,
Thanks for extending the offer of C motors to me, but in the interim I discovered D10s.
Lawrence William
NAR #18121 / TRA #00134
SoAR #468 / SAM #0422
Epoxy is capricious and delights in annoying me
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