A foggy memory of an old design called the V32...

Hello all,
today I was doing my thing cleaning critter cages (besides my day job my wife I operate a small wildlife rescue center) I had a sudden mental flash of a old rocket design that used multiples of tiny fins. I remembered seeing it in an edition of American Aircraft Modeler. Poking around the web I found an archive of these old magazines and found the plan listed in the July 1969 issue. But no actua lplans. Now I have some of dads old AAM in my attic so I figured I could look later. But lo and behold when I Googled the V32 model rocket and the issue date the plan popped up on JimZ's Space Modeling.org.

Thank You Jim!

This design may be an interesting build as a longer length design for experimental projects. I uploaded them so if anyone wants to see them they don't have to hunt.

Thoughts?

Look like it might be a candidate for Gas Dynamic Stabilization and man is that a lot of fins....

I remember this.
My father had a subscription to this magazine and I read it as a kid.
My brother has it and other model airplane magazines going back to the 1950's. Sometimes being a hoarder is good.

M

Pretty cool... thanks for posting.

Open Rocket says it works... but doesn't like all the fins. It also needs an 18" chute instead of a streamer.

Question: If a V-2 had 4 fins, shouldn't a V-32 have 64?

lakeroadster said:

Question: If a V-2 had 4 fins, shouldn't a V-32 have 64?

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Maybe the formula is x^2, so a V-32 should have 1024 fins. That looks a little closer to the actual model.

That thing looks "scary" . . . Better stick with high-thrust motors !

Nice work.

Is that paper shroud necessary? I’d think leaving the cavity open would work the same.

And who wants to see a BT-80 or BT-101 upscale flying on Q-jet 18mm or 24mm D-12s?

I confess that my design here was inspired in part by the V-32

plan (and in part by the Estes Prime Number Explorer).

How very fractal .

PeterAlway said:

I confess that my design here was inspired in part by the V-32

View attachment 393650 plan (and in part by the Estes Prime Number Explorer).

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I want to see the fin alignment guide.

PeterAlway said:

I confess that my design here was inspired in part by the V-32

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That's awesome. I'm so glad they included a 1" square guide for the patterns.

The article calls for the shroud/nozzle to be painted with Centuri Flameproofing Solution - what did that consist of?

Scott_650 said:

The article calls for the shroud/nozzle to be painted with Centuri Flameproofing Solution - what did that consist of?

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Back in those days, it probably contained Sodium Silicate . . .

Dave F.

aka water glass.

Ez2cDave said:

Back in those days, it probably contained Sodium Silicate . . .

Dave F.

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Interesting . . . Same rocket . . . Same question . . . 10 & 12 years ago.

https://www.rocketryforum.com/threads/centuri-flameproofing-solution.4038

https://www.oldrocketforum.com/showthread.php?t=2379

Dave F.

https://www.rocketryforum.com/threads/centuri-flameproofing-solution.63644

https://www.spacemodeling.org/jimz/other/v32.pdf

Dave F.

I'm sure if someone 3D printed that fin setup they would have plenty of people on the forum who wanted one to play with. That's just a hint if anyone's paying attention...