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Upgrade NowThis has @Daddyisabar written all over it.Somebody should Hop right on this... and don't use big clear plastic fins!
No, I’d go with the tip upward, I just didn’t flip the picture.I thought about David but since the logo rocket has a body and fins/pods I figured it would be too “normal” to appeal to him. It looks like you’re suggesting flying the hop flower/pine cone wide end up?
I do kind of like adapting one of these rather than carving the flower out of florist’s foam (as I was thinking) except that you have to buy four to get one. The size looks about right to use a chunk of BT-55 for the rocket’s body in the La Cumbre illustrations.
I'd 3D print the nose, but some people call that cheating.The top could be made up of 20+ nose cones. Come on, YOU CAN DO THIS
At first I thought the orange bit was a stick, and it could have fins below that are out of frame in the picture. When I looked again, I saw what you see. I'm not sure, but I thing you're right. And if you are, with that stub of a tube below the flower which is little more than a bezel around its base, it would need a ton of nose weight, if stabilizing it is possible at all.I’m seeing the orange and all that cloud-like stuff as the exhaust plume of the rocket rather than part of it, perhaps with a suggestion that it’s rotating on boost and leaving a curled smoke trail. I don‘t see all that as part of the rocket. It sounds like you see something else….
For recovery, if this thing can be stabilized, I think rear ejection. Stick a tube up the center, as you say, and a motor mount inside that. The whole motor mount comes out, tethered to the rest, as per usual for rear ejection. At that point, there could be a streamer attached to the MMT or the tether, again as usual, or it could just be allowed to tumble.From what I see, the tube will have to extend up into the flower a ways to have room for a recovery system, with the flower separating part way up. Some of the techniques used in the Fliskits Tiberius might work to pull that off.
Write to them and ask for a full size print or high res digital image.I do wish I could see a little more detail without driving to Albuquerque to get a can to take a picture of.
Yeah, it's gotten so when I go into a bar or restaurant it's hard to find anything that's not either carbonated clydesdale piss or extra bitter double IPA. I expect one of these days someone will start adding a touch of quinine to beer. Phooey! Give me a wee heavy or a nice porter. I'll drink Sam Addams Boston Lager when I'm in the mood for a light beer.Many American micro brews are over hopped for my taste. Real tough Merican dudes drink it to show their manliness and think they are cool when making a sour puss face when all those IBU's kick in during the after taste. A local brew pub would make a "Hopopotimus" concoction for just that purpose.
Whiskey for my men.... beer for my horses.Yeah, it's gotten so when I go into a bar or restaurant it's hard to find anything that's not either carbonated clydesdale piss or extra bitter double IPA. I expect one of these days someone will start adding a touch of quinine to beer. Phooey! Give me a wee heavy or a nice porter. I'll drink Sam Addams Boston Lager when I'm in the mood for a light beer.
I spit my coffee out on thatYeah, it's gotten so when I go into a bar or restaurant it's hard to find anything that's not either carbonated clydesdale piss or extra bitter double IPA.
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