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All I'm gonna say is I'm worse than dix! At one time my wife made some chutes for Boyce Aerospace- so not all are 'commercial'.
Changing chutes out takes time, I'm all about flying rockets. I have dozens of chutes, boxes of chutes, chutes in rockets and piles of chutes laying on the floor in the front room. I just ordered a drogue chute for a rocket I don't even have yet.....
Did someone say "chute fetish?"
Think I'll try that next week-maybe not a good idea in front of the Viking Princess, tho'....For me, it'd be easier to measure by the pound...my parachute bag easily weighs 30 pounds....and it doesn't have the big ones in it.
-Kevin
Plastic does NOT count. Sorry.
I'm with Wayco-it's a pain to calc desent rates over and over for a certain rocket and if you only have a couple of that size-what are you gonna fly? With what motor? Thermals today? Cold? Winds aloft? What's a drogue today and a chute tomorrow? At one time I took all the chutes out of everything and absolutely hated it. I can change out an optimum chute as conditions dictate, but fishing for the right chute to dress a naked shock cord just sucks if you are prepping for a launch window. I'll move nomex, but it's just one less stress factor to deal with if the optimal chute is already there. I do wish the desert was covered in sod, but that's just me!
Really? The hundred 16 inchers I bought off eBay don't count? Then what the f are all my little rockets going to come on, a pillow of air? I've built about 30 of them so far and about 10 larger ones from mylar space blanket, they don't count, either?....ok....w/e... :eyeroll:
Whoa- easy chief! No offense intended. I met afterburner at an HPR launch and thot that was the discussion threshold. I know some of you guys literally have thousands and some made from pretty exotic material. Maybe only Kevin could mano y mano with the LPR faction. There's a blurry line between MPR/LPR and my experience with plastic above 30" was almost comical. My success ratio with plastic is about 1:1. One chute-launch, replace chute. I suck at packing plastic. No disrespect, Dave. If you can fly the same chute three times-you are one of my Rocket Gods!Really? The hundred 16 inchers I bought off eBay don't count? Then what the f are all my little rockets going to come on, a pillow of air? I've built about 30 of them so far and about 10 larger ones from mylar space blanket, they don't count, either?....ok....w/e... :eyeroll:
Plastic does NOT count. Sorry.
I'm with Wayco-it's a pain to calc desent rates over and over for a certain rocket and if you only have a couple of that size-what are you gonna fly? With what motor? Thermals today? Cold? Winds aloft? What's a drogue today and a chute tomorrow? At one time I took all the chutes out of everything and absolutely hated it. I can change out an optimum chute as conditions dictate, but fishing for the right chute to dress a naked shock cord just sucks if you are prepping for a launch window. I'll move nomex, but it's just one less stress factor to deal with if the optimal chute is already there. I do wish the desert was covered in sod, but that's just me!
Maybe only Kevin could mano y mano with the LPR faction.
This is another thread we're all agreeing not to show to spouses, right?!-Kevin
Plastic does NOT count. Sorry.
I'm with Wayco-it's a pain to calc desent rates over and over for a certain rocket and if you only have a couple of that size-what are you gonna fly? With what motor? Thermals today? Cold? Winds aloft? What's a drogue today and a chute tomorrow? At one time I took all the chutes out of everything and absolutely hated it. I can change out an optimum chute as conditions dictate, but fishing for the right chute to dress a naked shock cord just sucks if you are prepping for a launch window. I'll move nomex, but it's just one less stress factor to deal with if the optimal chute is already there. I do wish the desert was covered in sod, but that's just me!
Whoa- easy chief! No offense intended. I met afterburner at an HPR launch and thot that was the discussion threshold. I know some of you guys literally have thousands and some made from pretty exotic material. Maybe only Kevin could mano y mano with the LPR faction. There's a blurry line between MPR/LPR and my experience with plastic above 30" was almost comical. My success ratio with plastic is about 1:1. One chute-launch, replace chute. I suck at packing plastic. No disrespect, Dave. If you can fly the same chute three times-you are one of my Rocket Gods!
I agree fyrwrxz about using plastic. I should have made it clear in the thread that I was talking about nylon, but most of the guys here know that it goes without saying.
I have bunches, but use just my CATO's and Top Flights for the most part. I'll use the factory 'chutes in the small rockets where nylon won't fit.I answered the poll with the number of chutes I actually use which is about 6-7.
They are mostly K&S Rocketry ($$) and Fruity Chutes ($$$$). Other chutes (unused) are your standard LPR and MPR which are relatively effective and inexpensive.
At last count, I had something like 180ish rockets (more now), presuming that the 3 mosquitoes I have are compensated for by the number of rockets with two (or more) parachutes, I'd say I have somewhere around 200 - 230 parachutes in various stages of assembly and/or use presuming that I could find them all. This doesn't count those lost to trees.
I have bunches, but use just my CATO's and Top Flights for the most part. I'll use the factory 'chutes in the small rockets where nylon won't fit.