You are a evil evil person.COMING SOON
I have been doing rocketry for a long time, but I have nowhere near the skill and knowledge needed to do thrust vectoring. I plan to add clear polycarbonate fins.What's the plan for stability? Thrust vectoring or adding fins?
I’ll quote @lakeroadster ”GDS?”I have been doing rocketry for a long time, but I have nowhere near the skill and knowledge needed to do thrust vectoring. I plan to add clear polycarbonate fins.
I’ll quote @lakeroadster ”GDS?”
I don't want to do GDS because I don't want to put a bunch of holes in the rocket and also I am going to 3d print the nozzles which would also make it hard to do. I will still use the clear fins.I’ll quote @lakeroadster ”GDS?”
You are making me hungry...Waffle Fins
Thanks! I forgot to add it is printed with PETG. It is actually my first PETG print because my printer at my house always failed when printing PETG no matter what I tried to fix it. Another reason to get a new printer. I tried to use the timelapse feature on the P1P but I set it up wrong. I will do it right and post some timelapse print videos tomorrow or the next day when I print more parts for this build.That's one stellar looking nose cone @ljwilley
.... but I don't want to add more on the lower half of the rocket for stability because it won't be scale accurate at all.
Lexan fins are the closest thing to "scale accurate but stable" I can get because you can't see them well at a distance.
Neither were the waffle fins included on the rocket
Max-Q has a much smaller falcon 9 model and I've been wondering the same thing. I want to try it, but I suspect things won't go well based on the results that @BigMacDaddy had with his TWA Moonliner.Wondering....
If the legs were in the landing position, but during flight, would that help to stabilize the flight? Maybe a spin test is in order.Could you attach the Lexan to the legs such that it was removable? Kind of a tube with the fins that slides onto the base and the legs lock it into position?
By the way they are called "grid fins", although I admit "waffle fins" is pretty appealing.Neither were the waffle fins included on the rocket
By the way they are called "grid fins", although I admit "waffle fins" is pretty appealing.
Those are more diamond fins.
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