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hobie1dog said:
not living on SS Income, uber expensive :eek:
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Had them for years. Never lost one :) You **will** find the transmitter, even if it falls out of the rocket. The receiver stays on the ground. At least, a rocket won't get up and fly away.
 
I went to the Cape to watch the Space X launch. It finally went. This was the 4th attempt. The viewing area is about 4 or 5 miles from the pad. Took a while for the sound to get to us. It was very loud. I could feel it in my chest. I can't imagine how loud it would be up close. When I lived here I saw a lot of rockets go up. The Florida Today newspaper had a banner under the papers name that told when the next launch was. If a rocket went up and it wasn't in the paper it was a classified rocket. I came back to watch the last Shuttle go up. That was fantastic. I hadn't seen a night launch before. As the Falcon 9 was going up it lit up the clouds for what must have been miles. Gave me goose bumps. After it disappeared all the people in the bleachers started to applaud. I only had my cell phone for pictures and while it does fine with close stuff it's no so good with the far away stuff. Here is what I got. It was so bright I had after images after it was gone.20220918_201855[230].jpg20220918_201900[229].jpg20220918_201924[228].jpg
 
teepot said:
I went to the Cape to watch the Space X launch. It finally went. This was the 4th attempt. The viewing area is about 4 or 5 miles from the pad. Took a while for the sound to get to us. It was very loud. I could feel it in my chest. I can't imagine how loud it would be up close. When I lived here I saw a lot of rockets go up. The Florida Today newspaper had a banner under the papers name that told when the next launch was. If a rocket went up and it wasn't in the paper it was a classified rocket. I came back to watch the last Shuttle go up. That was fantastic. I hadn't seen a night launch before. As the Falcon 9 was going up it lit up the clouds for what must have been miles. Gave me goose bumps. After it disappeared all the people in the bleachers started to applaud. I only had my cell phone for pictures and while it does fine with close stuff it's no so good with the far away stuff. Here is what I got. It was so bright I had after images after it was gone.View attachment 538213View attachment 538214View attachment 538215
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That’s awesome thanks for sharing!
 
Got the 7.5 Loc warlock build completed today…. drilled the nose cone for the shock cord attachment…. Attached the shock cord to the forward center ring eye bolt and now just paint is left…. which I have no idea what I want to do paint wise yet?
Here she is near my 29mm big daddy and flamethrower
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teepot said:
I went to the Cape to watch the Space X launch. It finally went. This was the 4th attempt. The viewing area is about 4 or 5 miles from the pad. Took a while for the sound to get to us. It was very loud. I could feel it in my chest. I can't imagine how loud it would be up close. When I lived here I saw a lot of rockets go up. The Florida Today newspaper had a banner under the papers name that told when the next launch was. If a rocket went up and it wasn't in the paper it was a classified rocket. I came back to watch the last Shuttle go up. That was fantastic. I hadn't seen a night launch before. As the Falcon 9 was going up it lit up the clouds for what must have been miles. Gave me goose bumps. After it disappeared all the people in the bleachers started to applaud. I only had my cell phone for pictures and while it does fine with close stuff it's no so good with the far away stuff. Here is what I got. It was so bright I had after images after it was gone.
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Night launches are amazing. I saw the launch of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory on shuttle Columbia (STS-93). It took 3 attempts - the first was very dramatically scrubbed at quite literally the last second before the main engines would fire, and the 2nd was scrubbed very late in the countdown due to weather. Each of those scrubs meant 4 hours of driving wasted. But the payoff on the 3rd attempt was worth it. Having seen both night and day launches from various vantage points, I believe that the night launch from the viewing area out past the intracoastal was by far my favorite. I'm glad you got to experience it before the shuttle retired!
 
scotte said:
Yesterday - hung out with my friends at CRASH and did some “learning”.

First I put an F44-8 into an overbuilt Estes Super Big Daddy (plywood fins / motor mount, custom built baffle, improved recovery system). The F-44 fired strangely, didn’t burn long, and then quit. The rocket did a quick 180 from just a couple hundred feet and lawn darted. It’s the orange one.

The silver one is a stock Aerotech Initiator. As a trustworthy, battle-tested rocket I looked to it for self-esteem recovery. Put in a G74-6, launched it into a beautiful flight. I’m unsure how high it went, though, since upon ejection the nosecone, the entire recovery system, and the AltimeterTwo attached to them floated away to an adjacent county. The body of the rocket conducted a very graceful tumble-style landing and came away with just a scratch or two. Upon inspection I learned that the ejection charge blew off the baffle, to which the shock cord was attached.

Today I go to Hartsel to see if I can regain any confidence in my rocketry skills. I’ll report back on that later.
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UPDATE: Went to Hartsel yesterday - was great to see some familiar faces and meet some new ones! Thanks to those who helped me out. I launched an AeroTech Cheetah on a G80-10T to over 3500 feet (I really missed my AltimeterTwo - I would have liked to have had the additional telemetry beyond the altitude that my AltimeterOne provides). It was a fantastic flight but was once again doomed to recovery failure. This time around it was my JLCR that caused the problem - the pin was cranked around too far and thus wouldn't release. Sadly, the tumble recovery was too much for the Cheetah. The body tube broke in an area that I had previously repaired, and is this time beyond repairable. That was my oldest son's favorite rocket, so I'll buy buying a new one shortly :)

Oh - I also heard from a fellow rocketeer who had been to both launches that someone at CRASH recovered the nosecone and altimeter I lost on Saturday! Amazing if true. I can't wait to learn more about how that happened.
 
I used up about 10 sheets of paper on the Payload bay.com site, as when you type in 2.6 inch body tube it doesn't come out correctly, so I ended up having to go step by step up to 2.74 before it ended up wrapping around and meeting up exactly on my 2.6" body tubes.
 
hobie1dog said:
I used up about 10 sheets of paper on the Payload bay.com site, as when you type in 2.6 inch body tube it doesn't come out correctly, so I ended up having to go step by step up to 2.74 before it ended up wrapping around and meeting up exactly on my 2.6" body tubes.
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it may have to do with your print settings, when printing PDF's make sure and turn off scaling or if a ruler is included on the PDF print one copy and compare to a ruler if its the same size it should be okay, if not you then know how much to adjust the scaling by.
 
rharshberger said:
it may have to do with your print settings, when printing PDF's make sure and turn off scaling or if a ruler is included on the PDF print one copy and compare to a ruler if its the same size it should be okay, if not you then know how much to adjust the scaling by.
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Pdf scaling has been a horrendous problem for me in Linux, to the point that I now print most of my pdfs from my MacOS carry-around machine, with carefully controlled scaling.
 
Got caught up with my chores for the day, and was just sitting on the couch watching football, so I decided to see what I could do to at least start the repair process for the skinned-up tubes on the tube fin rocket. I soaked the damaged areas in water-thin CA to harden them, then put it aside to cure. When I was at the Stafford Museum, I bought several trinkets. One was an Apollo 11 pin. I got it mounted on my pin board. The other two items, a NASA "meatball" logo T-shirt got put on a hanger, and into the closet. A wind-up toy got put on the shelf with the other wind-up toys in my collection.
https://shopclovertoys.com/products/wheely-fun-rollers-space-shuttle
 
Finally finished up cleaning the snap ring cases we used at Airfest. Then worked up an estimate to repair Sharon’s Grand Optimist. It will need 3 ft of 6” tubing, a 12” coupler, a centering ring, two avbay lids and an Aeropac 98mm retainer cap. That alone is over $300. An Ultimate Wildman kit is over $700 now...
 
Antares JS said:
Dyna-Star Flamethrower, 2X E12-6 - CATO - Probably the worst CATO I've ever had. The bottom section of the rocket was blown out while the good motor kept spinning it around in circles and deformed the booster section body tube significantly. The one bright spot is that I may be able to recover all the parts except the body tube itself and rebuild the lower section. The fins are intact and I could probably cut them out. The motor mount will need a closer look to see if it ought to be replaced, or if it can be reused.
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I humbly suggest you don't cut the fins off, but instead cut them out. What I mean is to cut the tube, not the fin. Sand the fillets away once the fins are free. That's likely to mean sacrificing the forward centering ring, but you say you're not too sure about the motor mount anyway. (A new motor mount like that is easy enough to make, and in the photo then end of the tube looks damaged to me.) All that will let you 1) preserve the tabs, and B) reduce the chance of other damage to the fins.

I fell behind on this thread, as you can tell, so I hope I'm not too late.
 
teepot said:
I went to the Cape to watch the Space X launch. It finally went. This was the 4th attempt. The viewing area is about 4 or 5 miles from the pad. Took a while for the sound to get to us. It was very loud. I could feel it in my chest. I can't imagine how loud it would be up close. When I lived here I saw a lot of rockets go up. The Florida Today newspaper had a banner under the papers name that told when the next launch was. If a rocket went up and it wasn't in the paper it was a classified rocket. I came back to watch the last Shuttle go up. That was fantastic. I hadn't seen a night launch before. As the Falcon 9 was going up it lit up the clouds for what must have been miles. Gave me goose bumps. After it disappeared all the people in the bleachers started to applaud. I only had my cell phone for pictures and while it does fine with close stuff it's no so good with the far away stuff. Here is what I got. It was so bright I had after images after it was gone.View attachment 538213View attachment 538214View attachment 538215
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Would love to see a launch live sometime!!!
 
OverTheTop said:
I really need to make a warning sign for near the power switch. Motion can start almost immediately the unit is turned on. Shouldn't be much of a problem if it is mounted on the car roofrack.
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OK, I realize I've been peppering you with a lot of suggestions, questions, and suggestions disguised as questions lately, so please don't hesitate to let me know if I'm being a pest about it. Here are today's. In addition to adding a warning sign, you could program a one or two second delay into the software's startup sequence.

Before you ask, yes, I do have 240V available in the field. I have a 1500W inverter that connects to the second battery system in the Jeep.
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Do you also have the ability to run it directly from the Jeep's battery, or another 12 volt DC source? Yes, I see you'd need a (another?) DC-DC converter, so maybe it's not worth bothering.
 
berlinetta said:
I went out last night and bought myself a lifetime supply of dog barf.....25 pounds for $14 at Home Depot. I may take half and sell it off at launches. Wouldn't know how much to sell it for though.
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You're only out fourteen bucks; just give half away to anyone with a baggie if you don't want it.


Sooner Boomer said:
There's a significant gap between body tube sections, the epoxy siezed up and I didn't want to force it. I'll go back sometime and fill the gap with Bondo. The body is getting black primer. I'm not going to worry about nosecone for now. Don't know what final color will be. Black hides many flaws.
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The biggest reason I know to use epoxy where wood glue would do is that it doesn't grab. What went wrong? Is it something about the Gorilla brand? If so, thanks for the warning, I'll be sure to stay away.


rfjustin said:
[D]id we succeed?
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Gum balls, no. Cute and smile-inducing, definitely!
 
I've only ever driven by Wallops, on the way between Chincoteague and Assateague. Where are you in West Virginia? We were way out on the eastern panhandle.
 

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