UpsilonAerospace
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I think that dual deploy rockets have a very cool method of recovery, one that makes a model rocket look more like the rockets at NASA. So I was thinking of ways to get a 'dual deployment' effect in low power, BP rockets, just for looks.
One crazy idea I came up with is as follows.
Fly a high-drag model with a cluster of motors in it (Let's say a C6-3 and a C6-7). The motor mount tubes would extend further up into the rocket than normal, almost all the way to the nose cone, and would contain parachutes of different sizes. At apogee, the tube with the smaller parachute and the C6-3 would fire its ejection charge, and then four seconds later the larger parachute would deploy from the other tube with the C6-7 in it, slowing the rocket enough to land softly.
Do you think this method would work and/or effectively simulate a dual deployment, and has it been tried before?
One crazy idea I came up with is as follows.
Fly a high-drag model with a cluster of motors in it (Let's say a C6-3 and a C6-7). The motor mount tubes would extend further up into the rocket than normal, almost all the way to the nose cone, and would contain parachutes of different sizes. At apogee, the tube with the smaller parachute and the C6-3 would fire its ejection charge, and then four seconds later the larger parachute would deploy from the other tube with the C6-7 in it, slowing the rocket enough to land softly.
Do you think this method would work and/or effectively simulate a dual deployment, and has it been tried before?