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Behold! Out of the ashes! And by ashes I mean when I wore sack cloth and sat in ashes as I mourned the loss of my previous Iris - stripped of her dignity as she hung on a wire slowly electrocuting for days before she mysteriously disappeared without a trace. But in her short life of four awesome flights, she taught me a lot and accomplished a lot: Certed level 1 first attempt, successful onboard footage, flew a variety of motors including the mighty I540 with zero damage, learned a ton on each flight, and just had a blast flying her.
I was so enamoured with her classic looks and laser straight flights - she just sliced right through the wind - that I'm going to build a suped-up version for my Level 2 cert.
PROJECT PHOENIX:
Modified 54mm 3" Loc Iris
Modifications:
Tailcone retainer
Double wall construction with couplers
Fin can reinforced with 6 oz. fiberglass lay up.
10" added to booster
4" added to payload
Airfoiled fins
Features:
External 808 camera with shroud by Additive Aerospace
Internally mounted forward facing camera
Marco Polo tracking
RRC2L Altimeter
Recovery - Apogee deployment via RRC2 with motor backup, JLCR on homemade 50" chute with spillhole. This frees up my cargo bay that would otherwise be full of recovery gear. I've tested and flown this method on all four previous flights and feel confident about it.
CTI 5 grain case with two spacers
Planned first motor:
CTI 3g J295W set to 14 seconds
Expected altitude:
6424' in 15 mph wind
Reinforcing couplers start at forward CR, fiberglass from there back. Fisrt time ever fiberglassing. I think I'm ready for it. This baby goes supersonic on baby K's!
I was so enamoured with her classic looks and laser straight flights - she just sliced right through the wind - that I'm going to build a suped-up version for my Level 2 cert.
PROJECT PHOENIX:
Modified 54mm 3" Loc Iris
Modifications:
Tailcone retainer
Double wall construction with couplers
Fin can reinforced with 6 oz. fiberglass lay up.
10" added to booster
4" added to payload
Airfoiled fins
Features:
External 808 camera with shroud by Additive Aerospace
Internally mounted forward facing camera
Marco Polo tracking
RRC2L Altimeter
Recovery - Apogee deployment via RRC2 with motor backup, JLCR on homemade 50" chute with spillhole. This frees up my cargo bay that would otherwise be full of recovery gear. I've tested and flown this method on all four previous flights and feel confident about it.
CTI 5 grain case with two spacers
Planned first motor:
CTI 3g J295W set to 14 seconds
Expected altitude:
6424' in 15 mph wind
Reinforcing couplers start at forward CR, fiberglass from there back. Fisrt time ever fiberglassing. I think I'm ready for it. This baby goes supersonic on baby K's!