Chad staged Estes Jinx

[sandman]

Chad staging...if I understand it correctly... it's when you just tape a booster engine directly to the sustainer motor without a booster body. Ya just let the motor stick out the back.

This didn't seem like such a bright idea when I heard of it but...big but.

I got to see a crappy Estes Jinx (it's a flying saucer type thingy that comes ready to fly) chad staged with a D12-0 booster and a C6-5 sustainer.

Very very cool flight, loud, lots of fire, smoke, and noise and all within about 250 of the launch pad.

Very stable too!

Try it.

sandman

 

[eugenefl]

CHAD staging is loads of fun! I've done it to my Edmunds Deltie Thunder and DER V-3 before. Before I was an "off-the-cuff" scratchbuilder, I used to think that only Estes 2-Stagers could fly with 2 motors. I always thought that lower booster would fly off without that lower stage.

CHAD stands for something, but I don't remember.

A quick note before you try it - make sure your CP/CG is correct!

 

[Brian Barney]

CHAD stands for CHeap And Dirty.

I went to a HPR launch yesterday, and saw an estes flying saucer chad stage..... also saw an Estes flying saucer rocket that somebody went and put a G35 up its butt..... flew great too

 

[rstaff3]

I've only CHAD staged two rockets. One is the Estes RTF saucer and the other is the remnants of a long BT-50 rocket (might have been considered a superroc before a D21 ate it). Both were D12 to C6. Hmm a G35 in an Estes Saucer....

 

[NiteWulf]

The owner of Commonwealth Displays told me he had a customer stick an F100 up the rear of that saucer. I said "Cool".
How often do you get to have 10 inches of engine sticking out of your rockets?