sandman
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Every once in a while you hit a milestone special event in a hobby. With rockets it can be an award or trophy in competition, your Level 1 certification, a particularly difficult model built, etc.
Today was one of those days for me and TRF member Gus.
We have been working on a joint project and he had me sworn to secrecy.
The project was a 4 canted engine cluster of the Apollo Pad Abort Test Vehicle. His was based on a BT-70 escape moor and was to fly on 4 18mm "C" motors, approximately 1/12th scale.
Mine was based on a BT-80 escape motor with 4 "D" motors and was 1/10th scale exactly.
We have been working on this project since about November of last year and it all came to fruition today!
We flew a boiler plate and an almost finished model today and the flights were OUTSTANDING!
We weren't sure if this was even viable so we kept it quiet just in case. The flights were so unbelievably successful we were about to explode! So now we can let the cat out of the bag.
Let me start with a construction and design review and later tonight when Gus gets home he will download the videos of the flights...including the last flight with a Booster vision on board camera!!!
Here is the first set of scale drawings I did. I did this in both scales.
Today was one of those days for me and TRF member Gus.
We have been working on a joint project and he had me sworn to secrecy.
The project was a 4 canted engine cluster of the Apollo Pad Abort Test Vehicle. His was based on a BT-70 escape moor and was to fly on 4 18mm "C" motors, approximately 1/12th scale.
Mine was based on a BT-80 escape motor with 4 "D" motors and was 1/10th scale exactly.
We have been working on this project since about November of last year and it all came to fruition today!
We flew a boiler plate and an almost finished model today and the flights were OUTSTANDING!
We weren't sure if this was even viable so we kept it quiet just in case. The flights were so unbelievably successful we were about to explode! So now we can let the cat out of the bag.
Let me start with a construction and design review and later tonight when Gus gets home he will download the videos of the flights...including the last flight with a Booster vision on board camera!!!
Here is the first set of scale drawings I did. I did this in both scales.