Rocketry Warehouse - X-Celerator Gallery

My X-Celerator.

Looks good Gary!

Finally finished mine!

Here is mine.
Heath

Primed and ready for paint. This will be my first rocket with tracking capability. I've built a Garmin DC40 into the nosecone.

Update: I painted the X-celerator with Dupont Nason Ful-Base basecoat topped with Nason Selectclear 496-00. Looks fantastic!

Man alive you guys are WAY more in to this than I thought possible . I thought I was doing good to have bought spray paint for my six year olds Wal-mart kit.

My X-Celerator on a CTI K630BS to 4671'



Photos by Dan Goldberg

This is my daughter`s 4H rocket for this year. As you can tell she likes green and black. She does such a better good at building rockets than me. The sticker is from Mark at Stickershock. The judging is this Saturday. The plan is that this will be her L2 rocket come this fall.
Brian

Brian: Tell your daughter her X-Celerator looks Great!

4-h rocket Around here i rarely see anything outside estes for the 4-h projects. Looks great

jaz said:

Here is mine.
Heath

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Nice! I just built a scratch rocket I'm calling Tank Girl.

I really like the blue color. Whats it called? And who makes it?

Went to NERRF 7 and flew my X-celerator for the first time. Got My L2 Cert using a CTI J355 Redline motor. I used 3 altimeters. A Perfectflite and a Raven II for backup and a Jolly Logic Altimeter Two attached to the main chute. Rocksim estimated 3311' and the altimeters averaged 3302' Not bad! A Garmin Astra DC 40 GPS tracker in the nose ensured I got the rocket back. A Boostervision Hi Def camera recorded the flight. The video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJo1iTu0TmA

Thanks for a great kit Gary. It was a pleasure meeting you at NERRF.

Great looking rocket and a great boost! Love the red flame! Congrats on your L2!

Dave:
Congrats on your L2, Was great meeting you as well and AWESOME! job on your X-Celerator.

Cool to hear that you had an AltimeterTwo on your cert flight. How do you like it?

The Altimeter Two is a cool little unit. It was only a few feet off of the Perfectflite and Raven II altimeters.

The paint is Dupont Nason Ful-base basecoat (2 coats) with Selectclear on top (4 coats). This is a catalized polyurethane paint. Color is T-70 Blue Effect which is a Mitsubishi car color.