That's a fine design. I like it!:clap:
The originals are my favorites, even when and especially if they were inspired by something I can relate to or am researching flight characteristic wise.
I have a Big Daddy kit in the build queue, but I don't see what I'm missing about it being hard to do right.
It seems pretty straightforward, even when I do it my way in my head. The Openrocket likes it, and I can see the flight with clarity in my dreams.
Mine will launch from the 1500 Makerbeam that is slid into my 1010 rail. There will be none of this "Lawn Dart" nonsense going on when I fly that rocket!!!
I've wanted one since my early teenage years when all of the sudden Girls and Guns became way more interesting than Model Rockets.
Someone here graciously gave me one, and it's everything I though it would be, so I want to do it up right soon when I get a chance.
I'm not going to strip the glassine until the moment I start the build, and I'm not going to stop the building process until it is complete.
Best of luck on the maiden flight, and get a Video!
Engine placement must have been a tough decision with so little room for recovery gear.
When I do my BD, I'm going to take advantage of the room available inside the nose cone for the gear.
A BT-55 coupler will ride all the way to the tip of the cone, and the cone will sleeve onto that via a BT-55, with the recovery stuffs stuffed around it.
Glass, CF and general designer mayhem will ensue, but I already have taken pictures of some of the test components, and am about to test them at a much smaller scale on a different guinea pig of parts and materials.
Holy crap, I just realized that in the time it took me to type that, that "
Hip To Be Square", by Huey Lewis and the News, played 4 times.
(You're not supposed to listen to it more than once every now and then. Thanks a lot stupid Tablet!!
)
I must be wiped out from the heat!