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54/4400, 40 one inch grains, using a star mandrel, unglued. number 10 nozzle.
Dude, you could sell tickets.
Nate
54/4400, 40 one inch grains, using a star mandrel, unglued. number 10 nozzle.
Mine didn't need nose weight on any 29/180 or larger motor (Wildman style), but I was going for spot landing and used the 29/60. Too much tail weight.
Live and learn.
Adrian
I LOVE the way the new hardware looks. I like the matching forward closure more than the hard annoed gold closure of old. I know it shouldn't matter but I am a sucker for that sort of thing.
I don't understand all the Tim bashing. Tim is a great guy. Great guy. I've never seen a group of hobbyists so completely hell bent on destroying a man's reputation. Tim is a business man and a human. Would you like to read all this garbage about yourself on the internet? No? How much do you think Tim likes it? Seriously...
Scott and Tim have a dispute that they need to work out, and they shouldn't do it in public and certainly not on TRF.
All of our should stop. Tim makes great, GREAT rockets. We all know this.
Scott makes motors that many people love, and they're very loyal to.
So, anything and everything else that goes on between the two of them is their business. Period. I'm getting pretty tired of people bashing people they don't have any reason to do so.
Tim is a great guy and a good friend of mine. Scott is a great guy and a good friend of many of you. I've never met him, but many of you are fiercely loyal to him.
Can we please just get back to the business of rocketry, you know, the HOBBY we're all here to enjoy?
I LOVE the way the new hardware looks. I like the matching forward closure more than the hard annoed gold closure of old. I know it shouldn't matter but I am a sucker for that sort of thing.
And it's better the farther the distance between the closures
I am more fond of what Scott puts between the closures.
And here I am just wishing for a 360!
Technically I HAVE seen a Loki motor CATO before...but none of the grains had lit. So the flyer found all the parts, put the motor back together, and it flew perfectly that time.
Why a 360? I'm not being a smart ass a really want to know if i'm missing something fun. I want a 54mm 425 or the like.
The 38mm 1200 is a hooot so +1 to the longer the better.
TA
giggle - laugh - cough - snort
This is the launch photo after I put it back together.
LOL, gotta ask..... miss a snapring?
LOL, gotta ask..... miss a snapring?
But for a real CATO, there was this one. I take full responsibility for it. I screwed up the delay grain and this was the result.
I miss my Small Endeavor.
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Well...
If you are going to kill a rocket, do it with style!
I just flew my scratch "Europa Express" again..
I know you'll laugh but this thing is so heavy it feels like it's full of concrete..
54mm central and 2 -- 38 mm outboards..
It was a bit windy..
With the rocket carrying 2-- 38 / 1080 J 575 FJ's in the outboard tubes I wasn't taking any chances with the central motor off the pad,, that's a lot of weight.....
The venerable K 960 W.....
Man,, that rocket left the pad like you lit 2 sticks of dynamite under it...
What a great flight...
The Loki K 960 W burn is 2 seconds...
I set the altimeter to light the 2 outboards at 4 seconds...
I thought that was quite risky / late.....
The rocket was moving so fast that the ignition still looked a bit too early........
That K 960 is just unreal...
I've got to get some pics of this up as soon as I get them out of the camera....
Scott,,,
You make one heck of a load man..........
( OH,, by the way,, I need some more,, particularly the K 960,, lol )...
Teddy
Sounds like a wicked ride, to bad it didnt happen, No pictures...
TA
I don't know if I've posted these before but this was from October 2014. The rocket is a Binder Design Certifire and it's flying on a Loki Research I316 Spitfire.
Our RSO won't let us fly sparkies when the grass is that dry. Damn nice looking flight!!!
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