ThirstyBarbarian
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I really liked it- first time I've flown a blackjack motor. It banked a bit into the wind but deployed at apogee and drifted back to right near the mid power pads:
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I upgraded it a bit before flying it yesterday. It still has the trifold shock cord mount, but I added a madcow chute protector, switched to a 30" madcow chute, and cut off half of the nose cone shoulder and added a bulkhead (the sloped stock nose cone shoulder can cause chute deployment problems).
The Econojets are great for Moffet. You can fly bigger motors in the Leviathan at moffet, but I like the altitude of the leviathan on the Econojets (around 500-600 feet). Are you going to fly yours at October skies? We could try a Econojet drag race.
I would be up for that! I have to do some repair work on mine from the last time I flew it at Moffett and smashed the end off a fin -- I'm just going to cut them all off the same way. You did the right thing to use the 30" chute. That's what I had originally been using at Moffett, and mine was damaged when I switched back to the 24.