Ok folks, I’ve primarily lurked here on TRF for several years. I flew primarily Estes when I was kid back in the mid 70s. If I had any idea there was High power back then I would have been in big trouble! All of our launches were conducted from my back, or front yard. Miles of open space. Not any more.
My favorite rocket then was the Renegade, flown hundreds of times, trimmed numerous times and rebuilt a couple of times. I’ve since cloned one to fly on any of the D or larger size motors.
Have yet to launch it. I also have several other mid power builds in process.
I am in the Portland, OR area so would logically fly with the club there, but could also go out to the WA clubs or even Idaho’s Marsing launch site.
I decided to post here because I have been toying around with the idea of a 1/4 scale RIM 162 (or larger if the 1/4 scale works out!) I’ve done limited work in Open Rocket and also thought of seeking assistance from K-Tesh the OR Guru, and some mock ups using a BT 80 trying to figure out the best way to do the transition and strakelets.
In the mean time I am ready to purchase a Public Missiles AMRAAM4 with
CPR3k just so I can finally go out and get carted for L1 and then get as crazy as Mrs will let me. She doesn’t get it, and my son is still a little young to start being interested, Almost 5 YO, so I figure it should be soon that I can start him into it as well.
