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I have a LOC 5.5" Wolverine kit with a 54MMT, which didn't come with an Electronics bay/deployment section. I was looking at making it dual deploy, but was thinking that for not much more money (excluding electronics, I have a good stock of them), I could stack two Wolverine airframes and have a two stage that would have PLENTY of room for playing with electronics. So much room, that I can pick/choose what makes sense rather than Jam the goodies into the only space that is left.
Seems I can make this be a pretty loud but fairly low combination as a two stage. H/I's would get it to around 2500-3000, J's to 4000-6000, and K/J to 5000-7,000 ish. The interstage coupler will just be a 5.5" bay with an aluminum liner where it could be cooked by the sustainer. Booster would use motor deploy with electronics backup. The sustainer would be standard dual deploy. There will be enough electronics that I can fire a separation charge, but haven't decided.
First thought would be to put an RRC3 in the interstage and let it fire the separation charge and be the ejection backup to motor on the booster. Sustainer would have either an easy timer for the ignition and an RRC3 for dual deploy, or an RRC3 to light the sustainer and control dual deploy.
I have the Apogee Terrier booster with the cardboard Sandhawk 54mm body with a 29MMT, and a 54mm Mac canvas Arcas with a 38MMT. Both of these should be dual deploy (right now, just the canvas version is) and finding the right day to fly this combination is difficult. Anything outside our field is in the woods, with a <50% chance of recovery.
The 5.5" is an effort to make a two-stage that could be relatively reliably flown at our field. I also like the sound of a larger air started motor lighting near or below 1000'.
Just wondering what similar projects have been done.
Seems I can make this be a pretty loud but fairly low combination as a two stage. H/I's would get it to around 2500-3000, J's to 4000-6000, and K/J to 5000-7,000 ish. The interstage coupler will just be a 5.5" bay with an aluminum liner where it could be cooked by the sustainer. Booster would use motor deploy with electronics backup. The sustainer would be standard dual deploy. There will be enough electronics that I can fire a separation charge, but haven't decided.
First thought would be to put an RRC3 in the interstage and let it fire the separation charge and be the ejection backup to motor on the booster. Sustainer would have either an easy timer for the ignition and an RRC3 for dual deploy, or an RRC3 to light the sustainer and control dual deploy.
I have the Apogee Terrier booster with the cardboard Sandhawk 54mm body with a 29MMT, and a 54mm Mac canvas Arcas with a 38MMT. Both of these should be dual deploy (right now, just the canvas version is) and finding the right day to fly this combination is difficult. Anything outside our field is in the woods, with a <50% chance of recovery.
The 5.5" is an effort to make a two-stage that could be relatively reliably flown at our field. I also like the sound of a larger air started motor lighting near or below 1000'.
Just wondering what similar projects have been done.