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Very short thread, this is a model that Scott Binder originally built based on 5.5-in tubing with a 3D printed cone section and boat tail and ply fin unit, he flew it once on an i 211 he said it had a little wobble.
He just recently gave it to me, I altered it with an internal avionics bay for deployment and modeled it in open rocket/rocksim and made sure I had a good caliber of margin and I didn't need to add any nose weight. It came out around 8 pounds ready to fly with a chute bag and a rocket man 7 foot chute and a bunch of Kevlar line and the altimeter set up for apogee and backup apogee. I got a chance to fly it on an i500 today and it flew beautiful just a little weather cocking and a little spin on the way up, beautiful deployment, unfortunately the wind took it off into the 10 ft tall cornfield with a lot of dense under brush and I wasn't able to recover the model but the model flew great and I think Jim Wilkerson has some liftoff photos hopefully.
He just recently gave it to me, I altered it with an internal avionics bay for deployment and modeled it in open rocket/rocksim and made sure I had a good caliber of margin and I didn't need to add any nose weight. It came out around 8 pounds ready to fly with a chute bag and a rocket man 7 foot chute and a bunch of Kevlar line and the altimeter set up for apogee and backup apogee. I got a chance to fly it on an i500 today and it flew beautiful just a little weather cocking and a little spin on the way up, beautiful deployment, unfortunately the wind took it off into the 10 ft tall cornfield with a lot of dense under brush and I wasn't able to recover the model but the model flew great and I think Jim Wilkerson has some liftoff photos hopefully.