mannyskid
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Next weekend is Kloudbuster's spring launch called Kloudburst. I will be making the long trek down there with a rocket that I have been working on for the past few months. The rocket is basically a motor with a composite fin can, tube and nose cone slid over it. The fin can is a 12" long carbon fiber tube with three swept back fins. The fins are almost an exact copy of the fin shape used on Judy and Jackson's (JLrockets) N5800 project. The fin core is out of 1/8" thick G10. The fins were beveled then bonded to the tube with proline 4500 glue, then given a healthy fillet with 4500. The reinforcements were done with soller composites 12K carbon. I did the lay up with a 1/3, 2/3, and 3/3 lay-up to produce something of an airfoil. I then spread 4500 glue on the leading edges and also painted it with VHT flame-proof paint in order to protect the carbon lay-up.
The electronics bay is bolted to the forward closure. It will hold a Raven 3, a Missile Works Mini rrc2, a comm spec transmitter, and a BRB 900 GPS transmitter. There is a coupler that fits over the av-bay and forward closure and bolts the whole assembly together. The main airframe tube slides over the case and coupler leaving about 3.5" of coupler exposed above the main tube. The shoulder of the nose cone has been left out and the nose cone slides over the exposed coupler. The resulting space in the nose cone is for the paracute to pack into. I will be separating it at apogee with a CD3 system and back-up surgical tubing black powder charge.
I will be flying this rocket with a 19318 Ns N3301 White. According to RasAero, the rocket should hit an altitude of just above 45,000 feet at a top speed of just over mach 3. The high altitude application for Kloudbusters was approved by the BOD, so we are go for launch for next weekend.
The electronics bay is bolted to the forward closure. It will hold a Raven 3, a Missile Works Mini rrc2, a comm spec transmitter, and a BRB 900 GPS transmitter. There is a coupler that fits over the av-bay and forward closure and bolts the whole assembly together. The main airframe tube slides over the case and coupler leaving about 3.5" of coupler exposed above the main tube. The shoulder of the nose cone has been left out and the nose cone slides over the exposed coupler. The resulting space in the nose cone is for the paracute to pack into. I will be separating it at apogee with a CD3 system and back-up surgical tubing black powder charge.
I will be flying this rocket with a 19318 Ns N3301 White. According to RasAero, the rocket should hit an altitude of just above 45,000 feet at a top speed of just over mach 3. The high altitude application for Kloudbusters was approved by the BOD, so we are go for launch for next weekend.
