What did you do rocket wise today?

One of the rockets I didn’t lose on the weekend - BT60 on a d12-7 with a pair of drop off b6-0 boosters...

Finished this scratch build from left over 54mm motor tube and an estes retainer I found in my parts bin. 29mm for MPR local field flights.

Regrets to not filling in the spirals, but the build took all of an hour or so.

Looked at what I had in the spare parts box and worked something up in OpenRocket to use the BP E16s I got off the clearance rack. A short Mean Machine...

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T-Rex said:

Looked at what I had in the spare parts box and worked something up in OpenRocket to use the BP E16s I got off the clearance rack. A short Mean Machine...

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I was thinking Irritable Machine, but lean works too lol

Nytrunner said:

I was thinking Irritable Machine, but lean works too lol

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Actually you gave me a better idea... Slightly Irritated

Didn't get to post this yesterday, I've been on travel for work, but I was lucky to pick up one of the 38 mongoose door busters from MadCow!

I was in the middle of a meeting and had to work stealthy from my phones browser.

Nathan

Hi All,

I picked up photographic prints of my Level 3 Certification Flight that was successful last weekend in Potter, NY! What a relief to finally have that out of the way after a years worth of work. Thanks to Robert Bazinet, Mike Dutch, and Teddy Chernok for their knowledge and assistance.

All the best,
Bob

Drilled some holes in some fiberglass airframe and glued a coupler in place, all as part of the airframe integration for my Vertical Trajectory System.

Bobfly said:

Hi All,

....my Level 3 Certification Flight that was successful last weekend in Potter, NY! ....

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Congratulations.

Yesterday, I lost this one to the wind.


Today, I cleaned up the shop and winterized my field gear and most of my flying hardware (batteries out of things with removable batteries, casings greased and wrapped, BP motors sealed in dry-boxes...). Its going to be a long, cold, wet winter where I live.

Bobfly said:

Hi All,

I picked up photographic prints of my Level 3 Certification Flight that was successful last weekend in Potter, NY! What a relief to finally have that out of the way after a years worth of work. Thanks to Robert Bazinet, Mike Dutch, and Teddy Chernok for their knowledge and assistance.

All the best,
Bob

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Congrats on your L3 Bob and a great looking AGM-33! You don’t even look nervous in the pics


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Thanks for the well wishes guys.

All the best,
Bob

Bobfly said:

Thanks for the well wishes guys.

All the best,
Bob

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Congrats Bob! Love those Mach diamonds!

Bobfly said:

Hi All,

I picked up photographic prints of my Level 3 Certification Flight that was successful last weekend in Potter, NY! What a relief to finally have that out of the way after a years worth of work. Thanks to Robert Bazinet, Mike Dutch, and Teddy Chernok for their knowledge and assistance.

All the best,
Bob

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Congrats!

Not nearly as cool, I went out solo to a small local field and sent up an Estes Star Orbiter on an E16. It was kinda windy but luckily had the JLCR to keep the walk to a minimum.

Nathan

I put together my midpower launch rail. It is a six foot 1010 rail with a collapsable base. It takes about two minutes with a screwdriver and a crescent wrench to assemble/disassemble.






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Did some internal fillets on my demon. But I am worried about them not being strong enough with what I want to put this rocket through. So I ordered some foam to fill the fin can. And yes I will need to add a bit of weight to the nose to balance the rocket.


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RocketFeller said:

I put together my midpower launch rail. It is a six foot 1010 rail with a collapsable base. It takes about two minutes with a screwdriver and a crescent wrench to assemble/disassemble.

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Nice.

Where'd you pick that up?

Bought a Loki 38-1200 case set along with the plugged closure. Mmmmm.

Normzilla said:

Nice.

Where'd you pick that up?

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Thanks!

My neighbor used to run a junk store and picked up the base as part of an auction lot. It is made for "Men at Work" type sign. The legs extent out for a larger footprint if desired.

The rail is a piece of anodized 1010. The blast deflector is a piece of scrap that I have had laying around for close to twenty years.

The only drawback is that you have to tip it to load the rocket, but that is easy enough.


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GrouchoDuke said:

Bought a Loki 38-1200 case set along with the plugged closure. Mmmmm.

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Can't wait to see how much altitude you get out of that motor.

Cl(VII) said:

Can't wait to see how much altitude you get out of that motor.

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Me either. I’ll have to travel to launch it, so it won’t be something I fly often...but it sure will be fun!

GrouchoDuke said:

Me either. I’ll have to travel to launch it, so it won’t be something I fly often...but it sure will be fun!

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I drive over 5 hours to launch mine too, but it is well worth the trip.

GrouchoDuke said:

Bought a Loki 38-1200 case set along with the plugged closure. Mmmmm.

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Hmm....it's a beautiful Case

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Cl(VII) said:

I drive over 5 hours to launch mine too, but it is well worth the trip.

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Delamar (we’re submitting for 50k for our May launch), Black Rock and TRAPHX are all within striking distance from here in Vegas. It’s too bad we can’t go into the 20s or 30s at Hartsel, CO though. Can’t wait to fly it!

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Hmm....it's a beautiful Case

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Thanks for the great customer service, Chris. I’m excited to get the order!

Painted my LOC Expediter and 3D printed a 54mm to 29mm adapter. Will try her on a H165R here in two weeks.

2 week? Where?

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Well i finished off my electronics sled. 3D printers are wonderful. Left is a Eggtimer TRS, Right is a custom Altimetry/datalogging board (Barometer, accelerometer (1 is a 16 G IMU which has some other things in it, the other is is a 256 G 1 axis), and GPS with a 3dr compliant radio header and possible servo pins) and at the bottom is a SLCF. I plan of using the Eggtimer and SLCF going into the same charge well with different matches as a back up for the the untested custom board.

Helps if I put in the picture of it...

That’s a real nice setup! Good luck on your Octagonal project.

All the best,
Bob

Today I assembled the CTI M1810 Red Lightning motor for my L3 cert flight later this month.