Many years ago I was playing around with CHAD staffing and came up with the following design. The rocket a ESTES Patriot was redesigned to accept 3 motors internally without a separate booster section. You would tape the 3 motors together and slide them into the rocket motor mount. which was located mid way inside the airframe. As the boosters burned and ignited one another the tape would burn and the motor would drop down and out of the rocket. I also did this same design with a CC Express, but I also had a separate stage "E" booster that helped push the rocket off the pad. The CC Express used 18mm motors, but the concept was the same.
It has always been a challenge to get it to boost straight, the obvious problem is as the motors burn and drop out the CG changes and the rocket wants to nose over while high in the air. I'm revisiting this design, but use a BT-80 as the main airframe and do a two stage rocket, but as a 3 engine cluster.
So what do you guys think? I crazy? You don't have to answer that:lol:
It has always been a challenge to get it to boost straight, the obvious problem is as the motors burn and drop out the CG changes and the rocket wants to nose over while high in the air. I'm revisiting this design, but use a BT-80 as the main airframe and do a two stage rocket, but as a 3 engine cluster.
So what do you guys think? I crazy? You don't have to answer that:lol: