My current mad scientist project is to set up a night launch rocket, painted with glow in the dark paints, color options are white, green, blue, and orange, illumination will be with some partially used UV LED squeeze lights from used up Bondic uv curable epoxy kits, right now I have three Bondic squeeze lights available, the batteries are replaceable
i need to figure out the best way to set up the night rocket, I want it to be a low and slow model, so far, my options for an already existing rocket are;
1; an original tube fin design made up from spare BT-60 tubes and the motor mount and nose cone from a Big Bertha, the fins were from a bubble wrap core tube from work, a little bit thicker than a toilet paper core or paper towel core, as it stands right now, it's a tad heavy even for a C6-3, however, I could mount each squeezylight in a tube fin and it'd be shielded from view and probably have minimal effect on aerodynamics
2; the Super Amazon, an Estes Amazon from a Tandem-X launch kit with 3 body tubes instead of the two, I've launched this before as a night launch, just would need to repaint it, a white base coat and then the GITD paint
[video]https://youtu.be/NDuzoTityCw[/video]
I could also just buy another kit and build it with the sole purpose of night launches, perhaps another taller Bertha build (2 Bertha tubes, a Fliskits baffle and Deuces canted motor mount) and with the fins adjusted to create a slow rotation at launch, maybe make a taller V2 or UltraMaxi Alpha 3)....
hmm, a taller Bertha with Fliskits Deuces mount has definite appeal...
i need to figure out the best way to set up the night rocket, I want it to be a low and slow model, so far, my options for an already existing rocket are;
1; an original tube fin design made up from spare BT-60 tubes and the motor mount and nose cone from a Big Bertha, the fins were from a bubble wrap core tube from work, a little bit thicker than a toilet paper core or paper towel core, as it stands right now, it's a tad heavy even for a C6-3, however, I could mount each squeezylight in a tube fin and it'd be shielded from view and probably have minimal effect on aerodynamics
2; the Super Amazon, an Estes Amazon from a Tandem-X launch kit with 3 body tubes instead of the two, I've launched this before as a night launch, just would need to repaint it, a white base coat and then the GITD paint
[video]https://youtu.be/NDuzoTityCw[/video]
I could also just buy another kit and build it with the sole purpose of night launches, perhaps another taller Bertha build (2 Bertha tubes, a Fliskits baffle and Deuces canted motor mount) and with the fins adjusted to create a slow rotation at launch, maybe make a taller V2 or UltraMaxi Alpha 3)....
hmm, a taller Bertha with Fliskits Deuces mount has definite appeal...