JimJarvis50
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Next will be the fins, but it will be a while before that happens.
Jim
Yep, it looks like it took a couple of months since I last posted on this thread. But, I've made some progress on what will be the second stage of this year's three stager. Recall that the upper portion of this stage is the recycled upper portion of my stabilization system test rocket with a couple wraps of carbon added over the fiberglass tube. Similarly, the lower part of the stage is a simple fin can that's designed just to do the job at hand. Nothing fancy. A few pics from the build are attached. All I need to do to complete this is to glue in the zipperless coupler and perhaps add a little cotronics to the leading edges of the fins. On the upper part of this stage, I remodeled the altimeter bay to use an EasyMega altimeter, since I will need tilt inhibition for the motor, and I added a couple additional switches for the staging electronics.
With this, the second and third stages are mostly complete, and I next need to work on the spinning fin can for the booster and then start assembling information for the Class 3 application. I feel like I'm pretty much on schedule.
Jim