2020 Rocketry Goals

The 2019 Rocketry Goals thread had a lot of good stuff in it. What do you have now for 2020?

1. Tripoli L2 Cert 54mm MD.
2. IQSY-Terrier Multistage HPR. (Brush up on multistage)
3. Fly L motor in 54mm MD schedule permitting.
4. Try to rant less on forum than in 2019.
5. Maybe try a cluster LPR or helicopter rocket LPR.
6. ME-163 R/C Rocket Glider time permitting.

Yeah I don’t always get my goals but if I push I learn.

2020 goals

1: grow into L2 motors

2: learn how to build with fiberglass

3: learn how to glass card board tubes

4: complete and launch my near MD
29mm 2 stage project, Lowtech 4 on mid power composite motors (g80-g40 to ~7200').

5:design, build, and fly my largest rocket yet, a 1/4 scale Viking 7 sounding rocket out of concrete forum tubes, 8.375" od, 12' tall, custom made nose cone, 6' tall booster, 4' payload and 2' nose cone 2.8:1. Sims to 3800' on a AT L2500st or 10,900' on a AT N2000w.

6: complete and fly a 38mm MD and 54mm MD rocket to <20,000'.

7: build a 54mm mmt booster with tail cone for Lead Sled.

8: finish and fly the MC Torrent (goal of 42oz build weight) with my daughter at local parks and with H power at the high power launch.

9: attend a launch in Kansas and stretch my altitude legs on the MC 2.2" tomach with a Loki L1040R could see 32,000'. And a WM BH 38 on a Loki K627R to 24,000'.

10: continue to work towards L3

~John

2020 goals. There’s some left from 2019 and some new ones too.

1. Cert Level 2
2. Be more active in my clubs.
3. Launch the same general number of flights as 2019 but more total impulse.
3. Dual deploy (more electronics in general)
4. BP two stage
5. Air start a composite motor
6. Complete more rockets. Many just need paint.
7. Mile high
8. Mach 1

Thin down the build pile(s).

1. Learn to solder
2. Solder an Eggfinder GPS kit together
3. Put said Eggfinder in my L2 cert rocket
4. Get L2
5. Build some of the level 4 and 5 Estes kits in my build pile (Cosmic Interceptor, Black Star Voyager, Odyssey, Conquest, Shuttle...)
6. Get started on the Sirius Saturn V sitting in my closet
7. Fly more reloads. I just picked up the AT Hobbyline cases
8. Fly more rockets than I did in 2019

NZRA L2: February 2020

- L3 in March
- Attend Airfest
- Get disc golfers to throw discs at my flying basket

Most importantly...
- Help NDRT be successful at SLI in Huntsville.

0) Get out to the field and fly something
1) Finish and fly the TAO
2) Build and fly the NACA RM10
3) All the stuff I said I wanted to do in 2018 and 2019.

jlabrasca said:

2) Build and fly the NACA RM10

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YES.... Hahahaha bringing it back to life huh??? NTRS should have EVERY spec on it down to last coordinate. Looool

1. Get a 38mm motor casing. I'm thinking CTI will be the way I go, for now.
2. Get my L1 (Tripoli or NAR cert) with my almost built MC Super DX3.
3. Figure out dual deploy and convert same rocket for L2 cert. (possible launch on the same day.
4. Assist, in any way I can without doing any work, building, or calculations myself, to get my son's TARC team to the national competition.

1. Solder my (first) set of AV Bay components - Eggtimer altimeters, Wifi Switches and Eggfinder.
2. Design and print custom AV Bay sled for the Eggtimer components.
3. Build AV Bay sled so it is transferable between AV bays 3" and up. One set of altimeters, one set of launch procedures for L1 and L2.
4. Build first AV bay and launch first dual deploy.
5. L2 certification.
6. Finish my current build pile!

SecondRow said:

6. Get started on the Sirius Saturn V sitting in my closet

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Yeah, you better hurry. It only sat in my closet for ~20 years...

jd2cylman said:

Yeah, you better hurry. It only sat in my closet for ~20 years...

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Well, at least I’ve opened the box. That’s more than you did!

SecondRow said:

Well, at least I’ve opened the box. That’s more than you did!

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Touche...

I didn't do too bad last year, but I had set pretty reasonable goals (Nice way of saying I aimed low... ). First was just to get back to flying, period. Next was to get hooked up with a local club (We had recently moved), and third was to FINALLY get my L1 cert. There were a BUNCH of rockets that finally made their first flights, too. Some had been waiting for many years.

This year I want to:

1. Get good at dual deploy and working with the electronics.

2. Fly my 20+ year-old Level 2 scratch build for the first time, and...

2a. Get my Level 2 cert with that rocket.

3. Build and fly an Eggtimer kit, most likely the GPS tracker kits.

4. Learn about GPS tracking.

5. Build and fly a slightly modded 4" LOC Nike X.

6. Quit being so cheap and just buy the motor hardware already...

The last may not be possible, but I figure you occasionally need to set lofty, some may say ridiculous, goals.

7. Actually GET a Stratologger.

Crazy, I know, but one must foster hope...

kuririn said:

Thin down the build pile(s).

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Ditto

Mugs914 said:

7. Actually GET a Stratologger.

Crazy, I know, but one must foster hope...

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Buwhahahahaha I so totally lost hope of this in 2019 and they kept saying out of stock so I went with RRC3. Foook Em’.

Too lazy to keep product in stock my money goes elsewhere.

Mugs914 said:

3. Build and fly an Eggtimer kit, most likely the GPS tracker kits.

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Race ya!

Andrew_ASC said:

Buwhahahahaha I so totally lost hope of this in 2019 and they kept saying out of stock so I went with RRC3.

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I did the same; proud owner of two RRC2s and two RRC3s. Still want a couple of Stratologgers though.

I'm just gunna keep on tryin'...

SecondRow said:

Race ya!

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Hahahaha! Actually, The LOC Nike is one of my Christmas presents (Even though it hasn't been ordered yet. Didn't want it to sit on the porch while we were out of town), so it will be the next project. The Eggtimer stuff will be right after that, so you will have a bit of a head start!

I treat personal interest goals the same way I treat new year resolutions, not very seriously. When I get around to it, I get around to it.

Mugs914 said:

Hahahaha! Actually, The LOC Nike is one of my Christmas presents (Even though it hasn't been ordered yet. Didn't want it to sit on the porch while we were out of town), so it will be the next project. The Eggtimer stuff will be right after that, so you will have a bit of a head start!

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But as of a couple weeks ago, I didn’t know how to solder. Starting completely from scratch. So you got that going for you.

Got the Nike Zeus myself. I don't think it will take as long as the Saturn.

1. Finish NARTREK Bronze and Silver levels,
2. Finish and fly the Pro Series II Partizon and Sahara in the build pile.
3. Build pile is around 40 kits. Thin that a bit.
4. Build my first rocket/boost glider. I have the Apogee Cirrus Breeze and the Semroc Hawk.
5. Stretch goal may be to go for an L1 certification.

1. Faster
2. Higher

Finish my Estes Saturn V (Version 2(Centuri version)), an original Estes Saturn IB that I'm changing from a 4 engine cluster to E power. Get my grandson more involved and start him building.

Andrew_ASC said:

Buwhahahahaha I so totally lost hope of this in 2019 and they kept saying out of stock so I went with RRC3. Foook Em’.

Too lazy to keep product in stock my money goes elsewhere.

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Health problems, while still providing product (check at around 6 pm early in the week), doesn't translate as "lazy" to most functional adults.

1. Finally add Andrew_ASC to "Ignore" list.

Done! I have accomplished my rocketry goals for 2020.

Oooouch.....

Tobor said:

Oooouch.....

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Don’t really care. Featherweight redesigns an entire altimeter when their components went out of production, informs customers, and released it before Perfectflite restocks one product. I think if my conveyor company ran out of stock since February and never told customers why... They would go bankrupt as Amazon/FedEx/UPS would walk out the door.

Literally I went to work sick with flu and still met engineering goals. Dad even went on short term disability for surgery and returned flying corporate jets and in hobby rocketry they can’t even communicate to customers why they can’t stock stratologger for months??? Put a freaking note on website your sick. Laughable. Any major company would go bankrupt...

All my altimeter money will go to Altus, Featherweight, Missileworks, and AIM from now on for a new 2020 goal.