Darren Nolan
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Hello friends,
I recently built a gorgeous Estes 1/100 Saturn V (posted a picture of it a few weeks ago). Yesterday I finally launched it and it was a terrible failure and the rocket is destroyed. I had an E12 in it and the rocket seemed under powered. The exhaust has from the rocket motor completely burned and melted the lower 3” of the fuselage.
The instructions from Estes say to insert the engine mount 3-3/8” inside the fuselage which I can’t understand why (CG maybe?). Being recessed up there is why my rocket died...as I said the heat inside the fuselage from the engine down was incinerated.
Please look at the photos I’ve pasted links to.
Any help greatly appreciated!
https://photos.google.com/share/AF1...?key=amhOUVZnV08wb0RXaU9MaHZfYnhxNzNibVk4dC1n
I recently built a gorgeous Estes 1/100 Saturn V (posted a picture of it a few weeks ago). Yesterday I finally launched it and it was a terrible failure and the rocket is destroyed. I had an E12 in it and the rocket seemed under powered. The exhaust has from the rocket motor completely burned and melted the lower 3” of the fuselage.
The instructions from Estes say to insert the engine mount 3-3/8” inside the fuselage which I can’t understand why (CG maybe?). Being recessed up there is why my rocket died...as I said the heat inside the fuselage from the engine down was incinerated.
Please look at the photos I’ve pasted links to.
Any help greatly appreciated!
https://photos.google.com/share/AF1...?key=amhOUVZnV08wb0RXaU9MaHZfYnhxNzNibVk4dC1n
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