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Ken, thanks for the tip. Indeed, a forward heavy ring, or making the pod itself heavy, will be in order. Thanks for following along and if you have any tips from your work in process, I'd be happy to hear them! Screamin, thanks for following along as well! Neil, you know, as soon as I put the...

Bill, That looks awesome! Hope to glean more ideas from you as the build comes along! Dan

Greetings all! I'm on vacation in Seattle, and today went to the space needle. What a fantastic view, from bottom and top. What an awesome story and history behind it! Anyways, likely similar to many of you, as I gazed upon the epic structure I thought , "this would be really neat to...

Hmm indeed, these are really neat looking kits! Will also be purchasing likely 2 when the Madame chooses the one she wants from winning the LPR challenge (sigh). Will also start a build thread

David, I agree with the premise of your arguement. My point was that your last two sentences would have been a fantastic answer to the op. Should he not attend launches because whoever set up the launch did not provide recycling is his own prerogative. Why care so much why he does or does not...

I read through this post never having attended a very large launch event, such as ldrs. However, I'd like to comment on the character that this thread took on. The op, although starting with terms such as "peeved" and "bash", brought about an idea he felt was important. Negative preface words...

Sed, First, wonderful work on the Phoenix. Glad to see the made repairs. I looked heavily on the early parts of the thread whilst building my own Phoenix for the L1 cert, and wish you all the best in that endeavor I cannot pretend to give useful advice on DD as I haven't done so yet...

Per the HAM radio license manual, page 4-12, and attention to questions T9A08 and T9A09: Length of 1/2 wavelength dipole in feet = 468 / frequency in MHz Length of 1/4 wavelength dipole in feet = 234 / frequency in MHz as was said, the antenna acts longer electrically than physically. One can...

You can carve into the Pringles can all you want...but for the love of god and all things holy...DO NOT POP!! else you may be building for a long time and/or building multiple Pringles can rockets Now to actually answer your question, although I have never been in this situation and likely...

I had a recent experience that will instill in me the patience of going through builds, regardless of how simple they are or how many you've done. I picked up an E2x Estes heatseeker for my dad to build when he visited. I as well as my fiance were helping him with different bits of the rocket...

Most definitely! Because we'll be moving soon, as soon as I ogled the goods I promised myself to not start one, to avoid temptation I taped the box right quick!! Haha Similar thought process to the planned upscale of a classic I'm in the planning stage of, with a modification or two...

Just received 4 excellent rockets in primo condition with excellent packaging from Eric. Thanks much Eric! Will keep in touch and send the finished photos your way on their completion Would certainly order again if I actually had room for more :-P Dan

Looking closely at the launch rod,it appears misshapen especially at the distal end. Thus may impart some coarse rifling action to the launch lugs, with an effect augmented as FredA posited with launch lugs. This may eexplain why the Athena had less corkscrew compared to the others. It also...

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Eeeeee, Looking closely at your test videos, it appears the aluminum nc tip is not aligned, starting after the continuity ignition (the 2nd test altogether). I wonder if this may have led to premature escaping of gases and thus failed separation until a larger than normal amount of BP was used...

Fun build indeed! I kept mine pretty much stock, aside from a qtip shock cord leader through the centering rings.

Top, That's looking fantastic! If I ever started into the world of micro, I for one would certainly trade a little performance for the aesthetic gain. Keep up the strong work, I continue to read these threads with much interest

hmmm, if glass is less favored (although I still think entertainable), I did some searching and came across something called "geocaching". It looks to be an advanced "hide and go seek", where caches are hidden throughout and are found by GPS. anyways, there are containers that may be looked...

I am intrigued with this problem. After the pill holders and flashlights, my next thought was to the bio/chemical analytic equipment. Unfortunately I do not have access to a screw-on vial, but standard glass vials (this one would be used for blood samples...tis for another project, no worries)...

There have been many excellent hypotheses that may or may not work for everyone. Still baffling, indeed. The only pictures I upload are directly from my hard drive. I've tried using lower-quality pictures to affect upload size, as well as crop pictures to affect overall size, both to no...