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Heres my Fliskits Stingray. A.K.A. Lethal Threat

My Stingray is one of my older efforts. I learned a lot building it. That experience is chronicled in the archive: https://www.rocketryforumarchive.com/showthread.php?t=43405

The thread I have here is the new edition: https://www.rocketryforum.com/showthread.php?t=791

The Flickr albums are here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/23694991@N03/collections/72157607434870648/

I like this one. I built it with the wrap from Fliskits. It's not really very original in terms of the decoration but it is cool. I did not have the skills back then to wander off "the path" and I still don't. The wrap helped to make up for that.

Mine are Micro Stingers single and 3 motor cluster... they sure fly nice

Here's my Stingray. =)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIyCPD0YoTw

n3tjm said:

Here's my Stingray. =)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIyCPD0YoTw

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That's a NICE Stingray.

JAL3 said:

That's a NICE Stingray.

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But isn't a big black ray a Mantaray?

Here is an awesome shot of my Stingray launched yesterday


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8yxb3dYwLg

Micromeister said:

Mine are Micro Stingers single and 3 motor cluster... they sure fly nice

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That thing is just under 6" long? I would need my glasses and a mag to read them decals:y: How you do that? (decals)

'Warhammer 40k Tau' themed Stringray.

Build Thread: https://www.rocketryforum.com/showthread.php?t=16085

Inspiration : https://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?catId=&pageMode=multi&categoryId=cat440178a&section=&pIndex=1&aId=2500024&start=2

dragon_rider10 said:

'Warhammer 40k Tau' themed Stringray.

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Wow. I like the theme of that Stingray. I also like that launch photo. Should be used in a Fliskits add

n3tjm said:

Wow. I like the theme of that Stingray. I also like that launch photo. Should be used in a Fliskits add

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Sure looks nice! :clap:

Oh, that thing is SA-WEET!

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Very sharp (and clean) finishing there. I've seen several of these finished with glass like surfaces and perfect fillets. Incredible amount of work there!

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That really is some fine finish work.

When it comes to pretty Nifty designs Jim Flis has come up with some winners.
The Micro Maxx Stinger is another of those kits.

It also make a lot of sense to READ the instructions before building as he sometimes throws in a curve or two LOL!!!
If i'd bothered to read the instrucitons with this first stinger kit I might have seen I was supposed to cut off part of the T3 main body tube. Believe it or not I didn't even notice the difference until the model was completely primed and sanded... I was more involved looking at the rear of this bird and PLOTTING how Stinger-b was going to be a 3 motor in-line cluster.
Still at a tad over 7inch long the Empty weight was still only 9.2grams so I didn't cut off the foreward end. Flys fine just looks a little odd.

The lesson here is to READ the instruction on any kit... the Author almost always cover little things like this right at the beginning LOL!!!

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I Knew the Stinger would make one heck of a Cluster conversion candidate and as it went I'm sure you'll agree it sure does.
With our fairly new MMX-II-NE (sorta booster) motors we have a perfect opportunity to get a lot better altitude from this classy looking model.

Adding a couple 1" sections of T2+ and Epoxy coated ends of T2+ balsa blocks a bit of careful circle cutting two new ports in the rear bulkhead and reducing the Main fin span by the width of the booster motor tubes and standoff. AND CUTTING THE REQUIRED 1.5" FROM THE T3 BODY TUBE. we only added .5g of mass to the overall vehicle. Just to be sure we didn't alter the CP/Cg relationship I dropped in 5 #9 shot to the hollowed out Nosecone along with a 90lb kevlar loop and a tad bit of epoxy.

Finished this one with the same Rustoleum Silver metallic metal flake base and Copper flake accents.

For the first flight, I used pyrogen tipped Q2 igniters and my rangebox relay setup just to be sure. had Better 2/3rds and daughter watching along with my grandson and quite a few club members. 5..4..3..2..1...WOW! it was just GONE! teleported to about 130+ feet, popped the streamer and was well on the way backdown before anyone saw it! Talk about your head snapper! All I got was a smoke trail....WOW now that was WAY KEWL!!!

John's (dragon_rider10) Stingray at the May, 2011, NEFAR launch.

-- Roger

Thanks Roger! That's me in the hat, by the way. Video

dragon_rider10 said:

Thanks Roger! That's me in the hat, by the way.

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I recall that I had the shot all lined up with you in the background and then ... just as the countdown reached zero ... you jumped to your left to get out of the picture.

But, I caught you anyway! Ha!

-- Roger