another one bites the dust...

too much rail, not enough power is the main idea of this story. My rail button hung up on the top of the rail and it arced over straight into the ground.




I think I'm done with crayon builds for now, remember this?

UPscaler said:

My rail button hung up on the top of the rail...

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What caused it to hang?

Doug

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Yeah there are always some busted crayons in the big box when you open them ....

Sorry to see it gone. I love my crayons..

plano-doug said:

What caused it to hang?

Doug

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I think it was mostly because the rail was 15 feet long, and the rocket was going really slow, the wind pushed it.

I did *not* need to see that, considering my L1 attempt is coming up with a crayon rocket....

G.D.

gdiscenza said:

I did *not* need to see that, considering my L1 attempt is coming up with a crayon rocket....

G.D.

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I'm sure it will be absolutely fine! The red one had a fine first flight. You only need one right?

That sounds like you needed more motor.....

What motor was it any how?

JD

UPscaler said:

I think it was mostly because the rail was 15 feet long, and the rocket was going really slow, the wind pushed it.

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Twas a kosdon G65. I didn't think about it because I was too excited about letting it fly. The only rail they had out there yesterday was the heavy duty 1010 rail, so there wasn't much of an option.

gdiscenza said:

I did *not* need to see that, considering my L1 attempt is coming up with a crayon rocket....

G.D.

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Hell, I'm building a crayon rocket for my *L3*...


Eldred

I did my L2 on Crayon....

Susan,

There are crayon rockets, and then there is the stuff you build.

My hack job is nowhere near your level, although I suspect that had I used a 38mm motor mount, I could cert L2 with my crayon. Assuming it survives the L1 flight, that is.

G.D.

They are fun. But I'm stepping into the dual deploy world, and am way to lazy to fashion my own altimeter bay. If I build another, I guess I could put a hatch in the side and use sue's home made tether