Congratulations on your L2 certification. Well done.
Congrats! Welcome to Level 2!
Congratulations! The K500 is such a fun motor.
Whew. Finally! Lol
Very good, nice flight.
Well done! Nice flight, great looking rocket. [emoji106]
One of the best flights I've seen! Congrats!
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Nice flight. Looking forward to seeing you fly it again at HARA.
Big congrats!
Any plans for L3 in the future?
You might want to look into the Aerotech 38-1080 casing and those Hazmat free J520s. Might take some of the sting out of flying a L2 rocket. Of course, sadly, Aerotech hardware isn’t cheap either. I love those hazmat free Aerotech reload lines.
Sounds exciting!IF I get around to L3:
-The subject has not to my knowledge been scaled or reproduced as a high power rocket (not even low power until this year).
-It has some interesting features that will require further design work to adapt for sport flying.
-Nick@Jet's Ultimate QCC inspired me to aim for M-O utility.
-It's the perfect size for a 1:1 production
It'll be awhile before I bring it out again, it's hungry and the average motor for it eats half my monthly rocket budget.
On the flipside though, I have a reason to buy a 38-54 adapter and Pro38-6XLgr now
I've been collecting and preparing parts off and on for about a year now, and it's time to get building!
Last year I was challenged to fly for L2 at NARAM 60 in Pueblo which is 3 months away.
Started with finding the LOC Cruiser before it was discontinued. It looked like a cool straightforward build.
Then I found a big 5.5" elliptical nosecone in Madcow's Rocketry Warehouse acquisition stash.
Since I have a knack for coming up with great terrible ideas, I thought I'd turn it into a long Tomahawk looking thing and do L2 in style. I swapped the long nosecone for a short one from LOC, and bagan designing a boattail.
After reading Eric Cayemburg's threads, I'll be doubling the walls using couplers. That'll be easier than fiberglassing, keep the weight down, and allow for stronger motors in the future.
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Since I enjoy making things more complicated than they need to be, I decided I'm going to try and get all certifications on Red Lightning motors (started with a Cesaroni H120 a year and a half ago), and this build is targeting the CTI J355. Fortunately, this is a big cardboard airframe, and it should turn out fairly lightweight. And if I fail to meet the weight mark for the J355,.....there's always the K515!
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Read on over the next few months to watch the adventure, and at the very least learn from my mistakes!
I've been collecting and preparing parts off and on for about a year now, and it's time to get building!
Last year I was challenged to fly for L2 at NARAM 60 in Pueblo which is 3 months away.
Started with finding the LOC Cruiser before it was discontinued. It looked like a cool straightforward build.
Then I found a big 5.5" elliptical nosecone in Madcow's Rocketry Warehouse acquisition stash.
Since I have a knack for coming up with great terrible ideas, I thought I'd turn it into a long Tomahawk looking thing and do L2 in style. I swapped the long nosecone for a short one from LOC, and bagan designing a boattail.
After reading Eric Cayemburg's threads, I'll be doubling the walls using couplers. That'll be easier than fiberglassing, keep the weight down, and allow for stronger motors in the future.
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Since I enjoy making things more complicated than they need to be, I decided I'm going to try and get all certifications on Red Lightning motors (started with a Cesaroni H120 a year and a half ago), and this build is targeting the CTI J355. Fortunately, this is a big cardboard airframe, and it should turn out fairly lightweight. And if I fail to meet the weight mark for the J355,.....there's always the K515!
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Read on over the next few months to watch the adventure, and at the very least learn from my mistakes!
Haaaa, A Long Tom Project??? I can't help but to get a kick out of that. I have been working on Long Tom projects for for decades. Thanks for the info though.
Tom
The best thing about it is that's it's different than the norm and that makes it cooler than the norm.
It'll be hard to top it for L3, but I've got something in mind
I pulled the backup altimeter data, but the RRC3 doesn't register a recorded flight.
It beeped drogue and main continuity prior to flight, and all charges are burnt post flight. May have to send it in for an inspect
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Have vacuum tested it since?
After that post I:
-Changed programs
-Visited family during Holidays
-Got a promotion (increased responsibilities and time requirements)
-Had the flu
-Got engaged
-Got Married (took advantage of coronavirus to speed things up virtually)
-Moved
-Got a dog
That's like all of life's major changes at once, except buying a house, or is that included in "Moved"? If so, I think you ticked every major life event box.
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