Estes Maxi Alpha III Flying on a CTI F70 V-Max

Yes I am a glutton for punishment. I used 15-minute epoxy and rough-sanded all the plastic contact points with 60-grit sandpaper. I ended up with a nice solid build so I thought, what the heck, let's give this 5 oz. rocket almost 16 pounds of thrust. 50-1 thrust-weight ratio. You know you have fin flutter when everyone on the ground can hear it. What do you think?

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Amazing video of flutter. I'd love to see a highspeed of that!

What velocity was this thing reaching?

Wow, cool video!!

Zeroignite said:

Amazing video of flutter. I'd love to see a highspeed of that!

What velocity was this thing reaching?

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The sim suggested over 430 MPH, but the flutter probably kept it closer to about 350.

That was awesome.