A pretty nifty little bird.
What did you do rocket wise today?
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A quick and dirty OR simulation shows around 320 feet on a pair of A10-3Ts. Nice small park flying cluster. Edit: sim tweaked, now 400 feet.
It does have some of the ideas I was playing with at the time, like flush mounted rear CR and a single launch lug. Happy to be proven wrong though.
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Did a quick Squirrel Works X-RV build. I really should get some craft glue to avoid the pucker...
NateB
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In the past week, I have had some items I ordered between Black Friday and New Years delivered. A chute release, more rocketpoxy, a Lil' Thor, and a Thor 54. Now time to finish up my MD Darkstar Mini and start a pair of Thors.
Learnt what LUA scripting is in Ardupilot and wrote a script that should be able to turn on the stabilisation with a "button" push in the VTS. This is my Plan B if the buttons can't be made to directly switch to that mode.
Old School Doug
Unwilling participant in the idiocracy.
Installed the mmt and painted the inside of the tube fins flat black on the Apogee Green Vortex.
Spent time researching that little blue cluster rocket from yesterday. Asked on YORF and the opinion is it's a scratch build. Searched the web and found nothing of import. Went through all my old posts here and YORF under my old user-name and came up blank.
So, the decision is it's an original.
Updated the OR file with the components I now use and it sims to 400ft on A10-3Ts. Nice park flier. Liftoff on A3-4Ts is a relatively leisurely 54ft/sec to the same altitude.
Now to swap out the NC for a stock one and do some flight testing, then write instructions, send out betas and get feedback. Timeframe... mid July (burn ban delays).
Tentatively called 'Fine Cotton', which is almost funny if you're Australian and following the rocket's history and meaningless if you're from anywhere else.
And I still have more notebooks and boxes of old rockets to dredge through.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine_Cotton
So, the decision is it's an original.
Updated the OR file with the components I now use and it sims to 400ft on A10-3Ts. Nice park flier. Liftoff on A3-4Ts is a relatively leisurely 54ft/sec to the same altitude.
Now to swap out the NC for a stock one and do some flight testing, then write instructions, send out betas and get feedback. Timeframe... mid July (burn ban delays).
Tentatively called 'Fine Cotton', which is almost funny if you're Australian and following the rocket's history and meaningless if you're from anywhere else.
And I still have more notebooks and boxes of old rockets to dredge through.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine_Cotton
OK, I read the Wikipedia article. The syndicate's incompetence is comical. I don't see why one would pick it for a rocket name. (Not that it's any of my business what you call your rockets.)
Maybe the rescue rocket is really Bold Personality?
If it flies to 600 ft. you know you've got a ringer.
The other possible name is "Clayton", but that sounds even weirder.
It will do as a placeholder name.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claytons
It will do as a placeholder name.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claytons
Nytrunner
Pop lugs, not drugs
Since you're selling these in australia, to folks that'll know the story, it's a great name! Bring a lift of the lip occasionally
Or O' Doul's.The other possible name is "Clayton", but that sounds even weirder.
It will do as a placeholder name.
Maybe 'Two Dog Night', which is a term indigenous Australians used to describe a cold night where you slept with two dogs instead of one.
I kind of like that...
Over here anytime the night time temp. goes below 65 deg. it's called a two blanket night.
Below 55 and it's "freezing".
Yeah, we're a bunch of wusses.
I like Two Dog Night better.
And if it's really cold you've got yourself a rock band.
Got a couple launches in today, including a D20 I got from my Secret Santa. Fun!
(It makes me think of the old Schafer beer jingle. "Claytons. Is the. One drink to have when you're having less than one.")
What the two names have in common (other than being Ausie cultural references) is being bad at something and being involved in an infamous substiturion thing, fakery. A bad race horse and the horse that replaced him on the track, and the bad substitute for wiskey.
Really, I'm not trying to criticize whatever you want to call your rocket; I'm merely confused. Maybe it's some sort of Ausie self deprication?
Really, I was just having a go at myself for my 60yo memory. I found rockets in that box that I seriously remember having lost in the past.
I could easily mistake one horse for another. Or a zebra.It's now in the 'modify and test' pile, and that's a big pile... By the time it gets to beta it will have a good name. I think...
BTW, my partner thinks 'Two Dog Night' is a crap name.
OK now that's pretty funny.
Charles_McG
Ciderwright
I made my first cuts with my new V1 MPCNC. BT80 to 29mm motor mount centering rings.
Cutting fire breaks when it hit me. No, not a rock, a name for the cluster 'rescue rocket' as @kuririn called it.
Two-up.
It has 'two' in the name and it's quintessentially Aussie. Two-up is an Australian gambling game you can play legally in a pub only on ANZAC Day. It's illegal every other day of the year.
Even my partner agrees. So Two-up it is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-up
You can go back to what you were doing now...
Two-up.
It has 'two' in the name and it's quintessentially Aussie. Two-up is an Australian gambling game you can play legally in a pub only on ANZAC Day. It's illegal every other day of the year.
Even my partner agrees.
So Two-up it is.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-up
You can go back to what you were doing now...
More work on the VTS, investigating the firmware and LUA scripting side of it. Yesterday I managed to add some functionality for reading a button and changing flight modes that I needed. Worked first shot. How good is that .
Hardware-wise I mounted the pressure sensor (for ASI) on the VTS module, and am currently mounting the 1.3GHz telemetry transceiver.
NAR membership card just turned up the the mail too
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.Hardware-wise I mounted the pressure sensor (for ASI) on the VTS module, and am currently mounting the 1.3GHz telemetry transceiver.
NAR membership card just turned up the the mail too
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Worked on an electronic thing design. Over the last few days I’ve read more datasheets than I care to remember.
It probably helps to have grown up in a certain part of the country at a certain time (which we both did) and it might help to have been a Mets fan (which I wouldn't presume to say).OK now that's pretty funny.
Yup, Mets fan here. I can still sing the Rheingold jingle (well, parts of it, anyway).
dr wogz
Fly caster
final fillets & motor retainer on my "vintage" Mega Der Red Max..
An original kit.. (yes, I broke down & built it..) Dunno if I was happy with it. built light; 1/8" ply CRs and fin middles. CRs were warped. 5-6 sheets of really really hard balsa, and the rest were medium-hard.. All stock except I added buttons, and a Kevlar shock cord.
and that makes about #6 for the paint pile come spring / warmer weather!
An original kit.. (yes, I broke down & built it..) Dunno if I was happy with it. built light; 1/8" ply CRs and fin middles. CRs were warped. 5-6 sheets of really really hard balsa, and the rest were medium-hard.. All stock except I added buttons, and a Kevlar shock cord.
and that makes about #6 for the paint pile come spring / warmer weather!
No, I can't. You've sent me down a rabbit hole that led to reading up on the Australian pre-decimal coins. did you know that the crown fits nicely into a 38 mm MMT?
(It's odd, I'm not a coin collector, and never have been. But I can't help reading about systems of coinage: the denominations, alloys, dimensions, and occasional trivia.)
Nytrunner
Pop lugs, not drugs
NAR membership card just turned up the the mail too
Does the NAR have sections in Australia, or did you join as a sort of international rocket comradery?
For decades I thought they were from Australia...
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