muddymooose
Hoopy Frood
Assembled a couple more Estes PSII boosters for my Ascender and Mammoth. Anyone ever do one of these as a three-stage?
Err, better cluster that bottom stage.Assembled a couple more Estes PSII boosters for my Ascender and Mammoth. Anyone ever do one of these as a three-stage?
Assembled a couple more Estes PSII boosters for my Ascender and Mammoth. Anyone ever do one of these as a three-stage?
Speed off the rail might be an issue as the 29mm BP motors mass adds up quickly and a F15 or E16 might not get it off the rail stable.
Set a new personal alt Mark at 18350 with a CF 54 Mongoose on a Loki 1400.
Whoever told me my sim was wrong and I wouldn't make 20k you were totally right. Sim worked perfectly for long burns, but not for agressively motor apparently. I would give you your due by name, but I don't remember who you are and I'm too tired to look it up.
Also, just glued the grains in a Loki K627 for Sunday. Hotel room rocketry.
L3 attempt tomorrow morning.
Congrats & good luck!Set a new personal alt Mark at 18350 with a CF 54 Mongoose on a Loki L1400.
...L3 attempt tomorrow morning.
...and there is no check on next stage ignition for a bp multistage. It is a bad feeling to watch a looping 2 stage (or worse 3 stage) knowing that the next stage IS going to fire...never thought I would be scared of an Estes Mongoose until I saw one started looping 25 ft off the ground.
Set a new personal alt Mark at 18350 with a CF 54 Mongoose on a Loki L1400.
Whoever told me my sim was wrong and I wouldn't make 20k you were totally right. Sim worked perfectly for long burns, but not for agressively motor apparently. I would give you your due by name, but I don't remember who you are and I'm too tired to look it up.
Also, just glued the grains in a Loki K627 for Sunday. Hotel room rocketry.
L3 attempt tomorrow morning.
Yesterday I wet sanded the black paint on my 2.6 BBII, cut and applied the vinyl for the roll pattern, got excited and applied the clear coat......
......Which gave it a case of the dreaded rocket herpes (paint lifting). D'oh, I normally wait longer to apply the clear. Fortunately the affected areas are small and I should be able to sand down and respray the clear without issue. Even with the spider webbing, the rocket still looks sexy!
Started assembly of a Der Red Max with 24mm MMT and finished color coating a Estes Nike Smoke (BT60 w/24mm MMT). The Nike Smoke is my entry for the closest to X-Altitude contest.
The Nike Smoke is my entry for the closest to X-Altitude contest.
Best of luck on your L3 attempt. What hardware went into the successful recovery of your 18350' flight?
Next time!As for the L3...failed, dumped chute at apogee. Rocket ok though.
As for the L3...failed, dumped chute at apogee. Rocket ok though.
I was avoiding a photo until I got the lifted clear coat fixed, but an indoor photo doesn't really show it. It's been about 48 hours since I shot the clear coat so I'm hoping to get that fixed today. The areas affected are still small, so I'm anticipating it'll go just fine. I may do a light wet sanding on the rest of the clear coat and respray anyway, to get a fuller shine (since I cut my last session short when I noticed the lifting).
Anyway, a quick group photo. Gee, can you tell what my favorite rocket design is? From left to right, scratchbuild BT-50, Estes BT-55, Madcow 1.6 fiberglass, Madcow 2.6 fiberglass. They were all finished using the Estes method: Paint the whole rocket white, paint the nose, fins, and tail section black, then do the roll pattern with black decals. The Estes kit has the standard decals and the other rockets were done with hand-cut vinyl.
Should be really fun to get a group shot with my BT-5 BB-Vb and 4" BBIII, but I'm waiting until I build my Polecat 5.5" BBII before doing that.
What was the failure reason? JLCR issue?
Awesome!!!Flew Go Devil 38... The decals peeled off, and the leading edge if each fin is covered in tiny pits now...hehehehe.
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