Schuyler
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Well, I just got back from NERRF (which was awesome) where I learned a painful lesson about the airframe material known as "Blue Tube". I was looking forward to the first flight of a 3" diameter scratch built rocket I made from Blue Tube. Saturday morning I was busy working the registration table and then preparing my V2 for my level 1 cert flight. (Yes it was successful ) Meanwhile my scratch built was sitting in the hot summer sun. After my cert flight I returned to find this rocket curving like a banana!
I tried turning it around hoping it would bend back the other way but no luck. Tim from Wildman kindly offered to let me put it in his air conditioned trailer hoping it would straighten out when it cooled. It didn't work. (thanks anyway Tim)
I spoke to a few people at the launch who were familiar with Blue Tube and I learned that this is a fairly common problem with this material.
And so, it never flew
I tried turning it around hoping it would bend back the other way but no luck. Tim from Wildman kindly offered to let me put it in his air conditioned trailer hoping it would straighten out when it cooled. It didn't work. (thanks anyway Tim)
I spoke to a few people at the launch who were familiar with Blue Tube and I learned that this is a fairly common problem with this material.
And so, it never flew