yvanthesaxophonist
Active Member
Some friends of mine and I decided we wanted to build a two stage rocket. We'll be documenting the progress here. @missle1 is one of my coconspirators.
It is essentially a Wildman Two Stage, with a few modifications. The booster has been lengthened to 48" to let us run larger motors in the booster. We also have larger switchbands to give us more surface to mount cameras that are integrated with other electronics. Our primary goal is to learn about staging, and to that end we have three flights planned. The first flight is just to get a motor to light, and all the other flights are just building up impulse and apogee. Ultimately we want to make some BALLS worthy multi-stage flights, but learning starts here.
Today we opened up parts, took inventory, and figured out how all of it goes together. We've got it mostly figured out, although we think we got a wrong set of bulkheads. Checking with Wildman about that.
Looking forward to this project, hoping to fly at the TNT launch in January.
It is essentially a Wildman Two Stage, with a few modifications. The booster has been lengthened to 48" to let us run larger motors in the booster. We also have larger switchbands to give us more surface to mount cameras that are integrated with other electronics. Our primary goal is to learn about staging, and to that end we have three flights planned. The first flight is just to get a motor to light, and all the other flights are just building up impulse and apogee. Ultimately we want to make some BALLS worthy multi-stage flights, but learning starts here.
Today we opened up parts, took inventory, and figured out how all of it goes together. We've got it mostly figured out, although we think we got a wrong set of bulkheads. Checking with Wildman about that.
Looking forward to this project, hoping to fly at the TNT launch in January.
