Wow dad, look at that guy flying the really cool odroc with the super nice paint job. He must really know what he is doing to have invested all that finishing work before the maiden flight. Confidence is key!
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It's either that... or... he just wants it to look pretty before he flies it into the ground and turns into a smoldering pile of rubleWow dad, look at that guy flying the really cool odroc with the super nice paint job. He must really (k)now what he is doing to have invested all that finishing work before the maiden flight. Confidence is key!
Yeah, I remember that post too. Rocket Snobs...Those thick, square, leading edges might put a few of the old dude airfoil purists over the edge! Hopefully the guy who once said that square edged fins were "The bane of the hobby" will not see this post. Otherwise he will have a complete triggering and melt down, the likes of which no safe space, comfort plushy or therapy pet will be able to quell.
Wow. Glad I missed that one.Yeah, I remember that post too. Rocket Snobs...
Rocket snobbery can make for a lot of fun too. Too repent for your lazy, square fin edges, you shall bring us a shrubbery! A nice one with a bi level effect and a path running down the middle!Yeah, I remember that post too. Rocket Snobs...
I don't. In fact I just searched for "bane" and found many interesting things. At the top of the list:Yeah, I remember that post too. Rocket Snobs...
No one expects the Inquisition! Yes, you are a true and devoted acolyte for the data tape search. I must prove my innocence after more than a decade before the high Jedi council!I don't. In fact I just searched for "bane" and found many interesting things. At the top of the list:
1) All the usual suspects have been called the bane of various people's existence (painting, fillets, spirals, etc.)
2) Micromeister was fiercely opposed to overbuilding ("the bane of the hobby")
3) Daddyisabar has been saying for more than 10 years that someone else said "square edges are the bane of the hobby"
But I have not found any evidence that anyone has said such a thing, at least not on TRF. Link please, @Daddyisabar... or we be forced to consider that this is a misdirection to hide people from knowing that it is actually *you* who secretly objects to square edges, and lives a secret parallel existence competing in FAI duration events.
I don't. .... Link please ....
There has to be eleventeen ways to get something other than a square edge to a flying surface. It's just me, but I find a blunt edge on anything going more than 40 miles a hour is like petting the cat backwards. Prolly more about aesthetics than performance, given most flight envelopes are measured in seconds and if there is any transonic region, it's only a percentage of that. Others may know better, but even disposable munitions bother with foiling to a certain degree. Square edges seem like they will 'hunt' as airflow tries to stabilize the attached vehicle, reducing speed off the rail and the cp fights the pendulum effect. Not interested in debating aerodynamics with anybody, but we ARE building rockets, right?
It's his mirror universe self, with goatee, like Mr. Spock.or we be forced to consider that this is a misdirection to hide people from knowing that it is actually *you* who secretly objects to square edges,
Spoil sport.I don't. In fact I just searched for "bane" and found many interesting things... But I have not found any evidence that anyone has said such a thing, at least not on TRF.
Try waiting until the paint is just barely not running and is still very tacky, then roll the rocket around in sand.I go out of my way to make my rockets draggy. I use tube fins, I use rubberized paint. I add greebles and go for the most unsmooth finish I can make in a rocket with spray paint.
I use that technique on my old army helmets!Try waiting until the paint is just barely not running and is still very tacky, then roll the rocket around in sand.
I will round my edges and grow a beard if I get to be in the scene where Uhura puts her dagger away!It's his mirror universe self, with goatee, like Mr. Spock.
Oh, maybe I should check YORF out after all. How do they feel about Mariette Hartley over there?Warning: Old dude sci fi crushes they had as young boys is extensively covered over on that less family forum YORF. Especially Terri Garr.
Well being stuck over on YORF is like being stuck on a primitive ice planet in a cave... without Zarabeth!Oh, maybe I should check YORF out after all. How do they feel about Mariette Hartley over there?
Just filler until the much anticipated flight video.Wow.... are we talking about rockets at this point?
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