What will be the advantage and disadvantage of a rocket made from a square tube ? I will guess smaller fins can be use
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Advantages: maybe smaller fins (although that didn't pan out for me), maybe easier to pack chutes in the tube, different from everyone else's rockets.
Disadvantages: Nearly everything else. You have to lay up your own tube, figure out couplers, figure out a nose cone, etc. etc. There's so much stuff that's built around standard sizes of round rockets that you don't realize how much you'll have to re-do.
See my build thread here: https://www.rocketryforum.com/showt...don-A-square-rocket-that-doesn-t-quite-fit-in
Thanks for showing me this Matt!And while you're building this, you might as well enter it in the contest going on right now![]()
https://www.rocketryforum.com/showt...t-challenge-quarterly-challenge-first-quarter
There is a rocket company that makes square rockets; I have a few of them. The company is called NewWay. Here is a link to their kits at eRockets: https://www.erockets.biz/newway-model-rocket-kits/
If you are using an altimeter, especially for dual deployment, then the calculation of volume for the AV bay is very different. Talk to someone who has done this to get a good idea of the number and location of sampling ports.
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