"Motor Mounts Are For Sissies"

Aksrockets said:

WHOA WHOA WHOA! Hold on there! It's just the rocket's name! You were about go rant about how we need to respect the low-N-slow folks, weren't you?


Enjoy.

Alex

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Aksrockets said:

1/16in G10 fins

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Aksrockets said:

WHOA WHOA WHOA! Hold on there! It's just the rocket's name! You were about go rant about how we need to respect the low-N-slow folks, wern't you?

Anyway, this is my "one week wonder" project. I started it Sunday night and finished it the midnight before the launch.
Simple rocket. Hand laid 38mm Fiberglass BT, 1/16in G10 fins, plastic NC. The rocket cost me $10 to make (just the NC).

That's the great thing about composites. Body tubes get really cheap when you have mandrels and spare FG cloth lying around.
No tracking. Just about an ounce of tracking powder and a mylar streamer. It disappeared at apogee, but Joe (Jmhepworth) spotted it just after apogee and tracked it for a while. We lost it later in the decent, but Joe's tracking was enough to guess the general area it landed in.
My mom went out and found it within minutes.

Here's the video.

[video=youtube;iFJdlcsSoZ4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFJdlcsSoZ4[/video]

Enjoy.

Alex

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Aksrockets said:

WHOA WHOA WHOA! Hold on there! It's just the rocket's name! You were about go rant about how we need to respect the low-N-slow folks, wern't you?

Anyway, this is my "one week wonder" project. I started it Sunday night and finished it the midnight before the launch.
Simple rocket. Hand laid 38mm Fiberglass BT, 1/16in G10 fins, plastic NC. The rocket cost me $10 to make (just the NC).

That's the great thing about composites. Body tubes get really cheap when you have mandrels and spare FG cloth lying around.
No tracking. Just about an ounce of tracking powder and a mylar streamer. It disappeared at apogee, but Joe (Jmhepworth) spotted it just after apogee and tracked it for a while. We lost it later in the decent, but Joe's tracking was enough to guess the general area it landed in.
My mom went out and found it within minutes.

Here's the video.

[video=youtube;iFJdlcsSoZ4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFJdlcsSoZ4[video]

Enjoy.

Alex

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BLKKROW said:

Great flight. Did it veer to the left at first? It kinda looked like it in the video but it may have been the video screwing with my brain.

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iter said:

I wonder what you use to cut the G10.

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CCotner said:

Freaking sweet!!! Man, I LOVE this hobby. It's spur-of-the-moment projects like this that make this such a cool place.

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DRAGON64 said:

Kind of hard to tell from the video... but what did this home brew rocket look like?

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marcusSRG said:

Badass. I didn't catch the motor? What's your process for laying up the airframe?

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Aksrockets said:

Round 2!

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:grin:

Alex

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