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Biodragen

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Decided to do a 1st. This will be for Airfest 2023.

Min diameter with the carbon fiber airframe Wildman 3" Falcon and went with G10 fins. Already glued in the nose coupler and did vent band.
Started the fillet process. Never really used Proline But the 1st round of fillets are like glass.
 

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Decided to do a 1st. This will be for Airfest 2023.

Min diameter with the carbon fiber airframe Wildman 3" Falcon and went with G10 fins. Already glued in the nose coupler and did vent band.
Started the fillet process. Never really used Proline But the 1st round of fillets are like glass.
Intended motor?
 
Intended motor?
Shakedown prolly a K750. After that M1350, M1780, M1297 and it may be a bit tight with a M1850 not sure what right now but one of these.....maybe experimental in there.
Will weigh about 15-20 on the pad with M motors.

2 goals in mind.....I will break both for sure with this rocket with speed and alt.
 
Okay, here is where I am at.

I have it built and made a change, I went from dual deploy to HED. Loosing that 20" made a difference over all. Nothing protruding on the outside. My one obstacle was the chute and cord with having enough room (It was very very tight using Spherachutes 72") so some sacrifice had to be made with downsizing the size of the chute. I am using Spherachutes 45" Heavy Duty with some nice thick cords on it. Now that there is room and not squeezing it together I will do the EJ from the top of the cone down.
I have this weighing in at 4lbs 5oz w/o motor. I put in my AT 5120 case and I am at 7lbs 13oz. I used this case as a reference as I do not have the correct case. I want to use Cesaroni M3700 with the AT tail cone. RS projects this to be well over my goal at 22,300' and Mach 2.62. I expect this to be around 16.5lbs on the pad. Just hope it goes straight off the pad. My future guess is 21500' and just past Mach2.
Now I have been told the AT M1850 would do it but it falls sort on the Mach end of it at 1.96 for some of you who may comment on a motor.

The wait begins for Airfest this year to launch this.
 
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