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I suspect I posted this years before but in my old age would like to resurrect it again. Back in the day when the Peoria (Illinois) Area Rocketry Society was getting established, we had a guy (who will remain nameless for his protection) who loved flying "odd-rocks".
He came up with an odd rocket that was made out of one of those triangular tubes USPS shipping boxes. He made a triangular nosecone, made plywood triangular centering rings and put fins through the wall (I think) l into the motor tube. I don't know if the fins were "'glass" on plywood. I think the motor tube was 54mm. The skin of the rocket wasn't fiberglassed.
He flew it on lower impulse motors up to a "J" with good success. Was always fun to see fly. One day the flier decided to fly it on a commercial "K" motor and that was the limit of cardboard.
Went up and disintegrated on ascent. Cardboard confetti rained downed on us and we were laughing liking Hades.
One would think the flier lost all his hardware but many minutes later the empty motor tube came down under a main chute and the flier got his hardware back.
We fellow fliers laughed and laughed to no end as to the unusual flight but were happy the flier was able to get the expensive hardward of his rocket back to fly again in other projects.
Kurt
I suspect I posted this years before but in my old age would like to resurrect it again. Back in the day when the Peoria (Illinois) Area Rocketry Society was getting established, we had a guy (who will remain nameless for his protection) who loved flying "odd-rocks".
He came up with an odd rocket that was made out of one of those triangular tubes USPS shipping boxes. He made a triangular nosecone, made plywood triangular centering rings and put fins through the wall (I think) l into the motor tube. I don't know if the fins were "'glass" on plywood. I think the motor tube was 54mm. The skin of the rocket wasn't fiberglassed.
He flew it on lower impulse motors up to a "J" with good success. Was always fun to see fly. One day the flier decided to fly it on a commercial "K" motor and that was the limit of cardboard.
Went up and disintegrated on ascent. Cardboard confetti rained downed on us and we were laughing liking Hades.
One would think the flier lost all his hardware but many minutes later the empty motor tube came down under a main chute and the flier got his hardware back.
We fellow fliers laughed and laughed to no end as to the unusual flight but were happy the flier was able to get the expensive hardward of his rocket back to fly again in other projects.
Kurt