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Does anyone think it is feasible to have streamer recovery as an event for egg loft duration? The streamer would need to be quite large but this could be an option for smaller fields.
Just use smaller motors, or launch two eggs at a time. Eventually BTCs would figure out how to thermal an egg on a streamer.Does anyone think it is feasible to have streamer recovery as an event for egg loft duration? The streamer would need to be quite large but this could be an option for smaller fields.
Does anyone think it is feasible to have streamer recovery as an event for egg loft duration? The streamer would need to be quite large but this could be an option for smaller fields.
Hi Brian, That is a good point regarding Q-Jet motors. I just looked at their website and between Estes and Aerotech, there are a few choices, which is great. Regarding streamers, I think it would be possible to bring an egg back safely but challenging. I also drifted away a lot of parachute duration rockets back when I competed. Maybe the better approach is altitude in the smaller fields in the north east.
A streamer simply doesn't slow the egg down enough.
Hi Garth, Thanks for sharing this! This is exactly what I was thinking. Cheers, AlexStreamers have been used in the past (1970's) to recover high altitude egglofters. They were first mentioned in the 1971 article in Model Rocketry Magazine during the Montreal Canada Annual convention, to some success. We duplicated this during an Alberta contest in 1978 flying a D12-0 to an FSI E5-6. The trick was using a CMR Egg capsule, good rubber padding, doubled over crepe paper, 3-4 inch wide and the lowest mass air-frame you could build that would handle the motors. Also fly in a field with nice soft cut grass.
My aforementioned D to E flight managed to hit the only rock in the field, and cracked the egg for a DQ, it did not obliterate itself. So careful experimentation may be in order.
Garth Illerbrun
NAR 26894L2
CAR S04 L3
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