- Joined
- Feb 26, 2012
- Messages
- 2,091
- Reaction score
- 863
After posting a couple photos in Dan's thread , I received a few private messages from others asking how I built the rocket so far . I decided I will do a quick detailed write up on the construction and flight in the spring . The rocket is a rebuild of a 1/4 scale ARIES I built in the late 90's inspired by Ray Halm and Andy Schektner's one half scale flown at LDRS in Argonia in 1996(?) On 4 M1939's. My origanal rocket was all PML 11.5 components and weighed 108 pounds loaded with a single M2500. After many , many hours of trying decide how to get 10 pounds of parachutes into a 5 pound space , I shelved the rocket for a smaller cheaper design. The rocket was later destroyed when it fell over in the garage . 35 pounds of lead in the top 10 inches of the cone sheared the nose cone in half and broke the main body tube.
ARIES part 2 is a light weight design that will be a single deploy pop it at the top style . I spent about 2 weeks doing 4 different build versions in open rocket before I found the best design for what I was looking to do .
The construction of the rocket is very basic and my 7 year old daughter is doing alot of the construction (supervised) and is her first "big" rocket. Last year she started out with Estes and likes the bigger stuff .
ARIES part 2 is a light weight design that will be a single deploy pop it at the top style . I spent about 2 weeks doing 4 different build versions in open rocket before I found the best design for what I was looking to do .
The construction of the rocket is very basic and my 7 year old daughter is doing alot of the construction (supervised) and is her first "big" rocket. Last year she started out with Estes and likes the bigger stuff .