Loki Research
Motor Manufacturer
- Joined
- Aug 20, 2011
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I bring up one of these rules, 10-6 of the Unified Safety Code, try to discuss the rule with the rule makers and what happens? Both those who could potentially benefit from the removal of the rule and proxies of the rule makers scream out of reflex, DON"T ROCK THE BOAT!!! That means they want everyone else to pick the safe side which is silence, complete silence, lest the rule maker and their proxies point their fingers at YOU! Don't be bullied by the bullies. Speak up with your thoughts, whatever they may be. These are YOUR clubs. The sooner you believe that and act on it, the sooner you and your club will benefit from it.
I'm not trying to silence anyone.
Are you?
Are they?
Loki Research = My wife and I.
University sales of non-certified custom motors could be a boom for our business, IF they were allowed to be flown without the impediment of the TRA's own rules. THEY KNOW THIS.
Not all testing requires thrust and pressure measurements. Thermal tests for liner and nozzle thickness requirements just need to be hot fired. I'd rather sell a hot-fire motor to and exempt entity needing that motor, and do so at a business boosting profit, rather than having to eat the entire cost myself. It's likely I would never conduct a 98mm test like this, let alone the number required to answer the thermal test questions because any potential profits would be too far away down the road, and I wouldn't have been able to afford the required materials needed to preform such tests. My past University sales from one school only will soon result in 98mm reloadable Loki motor hardware with a few reloads being available to everyone. Without those sales, I wouldn't have any 98mm motors to offer next year or the year after that, or the year after that, because the process has taken that long and I'm still working on it.
I'm not trying to silence anyone.
Are you?
Are they?
Loki Research = My wife and I.
University sales of non-certified custom motors could be a boom for our business, IF they were allowed to be flown without the impediment of the TRA's own rules. THEY KNOW THIS.
Not all testing requires thrust and pressure measurements. Thermal tests for liner and nozzle thickness requirements just need to be hot fired. I'd rather sell a hot-fire motor to and exempt entity needing that motor, and do so at a business boosting profit, rather than having to eat the entire cost myself. It's likely I would never conduct a 98mm test like this, let alone the number required to answer the thermal test questions because any potential profits would be too far away down the road, and I wouldn't have been able to afford the required materials needed to preform such tests. My past University sales from one school only will soon result in 98mm reloadable Loki motor hardware with a few reloads being available to everyone. Without those sales, I wouldn't have any 98mm motors to offer next year or the year after that, or the year after that, because the process has taken that long and I'm still working on it.