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Estes Conquest on an AT E18W-4. Great APCP substitute in place of the BP Estes E12-4. (HARA February launch credits to Turbulent Sphere for the nice shot.)
Nice shot!
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Estes Conquest on an AT E18W-4. Great APCP substitute in place of the BP Estes E12-4. (HARA February launch credits to Turbulent Sphere for the nice shot.)
Why do the hobbyline prices keep going up? I paid like 45 for a 24/40 hardware set last year and now I see they're 55. Kinda feels like we need more people making hardware like the old Dr Rocket and RouseTech stuff for hobbyline.
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Peter’s rocket on an Aerotech I280 DM. He L1 certified this Saturday.
Get the money from Aerotech up front . . . Sorry, but "business is business", especially if there are possible "cash flow" issues.
Dave F.
Chris is my local supplier (and when I say local, 1.5 hour driving time, same state lol). I fly Aerotech for 24 and 29 with the exception of Estes here and there. My 38's are Loki which Chris has a nice supply of. He definitely has a good stock of Aerotech reloads though. I've found Apogee to be less than reliable when looking for motors and even kits so I don't even bother shopping there. Can't go wrong with Chris though, and if he doesn't have it, he'll get it. I was looking for a Loki 38/120 and he didn't have any in stock but he said he'd look. Got an email about a day or two later saying he had one for me .Chris and PyroBob seem to have trailer full of competitor and Aerotech reloads at the flying fields. Why don’t you get out and fly some high power recently, Dave?! Certain motors vendors suck at restocking. I no longer order motors from Apogee.
I've been waiting for 4 month for a M1850 White Lightning and a L1365 Metalstorm that I ordered from Performance Hobbies in October. Kenny showed me his latest Aerotech invoice just 2 days ago and they are still backordered, along with several reloads ordered by his other customers.
Wonder what happened to this?
2 blew up that I know about , one durring LDRS and the other I'm not sure of the location . Also one blew up at LDRS in Bonavile on the salt flats . Mike Riners all metal rocket took a good hit.
Is there a particular reason for this?
What would the chances be of getting a -0 delay quest motor for staging to a traditional black powder motor? Has something like this ever been considered? It would be fun to do some18mm min dia two or three stage rockets starting with one of Aerotechs D 18mm motors staging to traditional black powder. I ask this not knowing what the grain geometry is like inside of their 18mm motors. If it's a slotted grain going to a delay element I could see how this might not work but if it's end burning configuration it could maybe work.
Q-jets are slotted grains open to the delay element. Therein lies the issue of composite direct staging.
Standard practice is not to reduce a delay below 4 seconds with an open grain to prevent chamber pressure rupturing the delay element. Q-jets dont have lower than 4 second delays.
Academically, I wonder if the 4 second restriction is necessary on such small motors, but the proof is left as an exercise to the reader.
Bring back Thermalite.
Do we have an update on the G8st-p?
Hey Charlie, when are you going to have the old style black hats back in stock? I would love to have one.
I think the casings of those were getting too hot so they woun't be available for a long time if at all.
They did test fire a......38mm DMS H26ST-P endburner static test, 245 N-sec., 9.5 second burn....today.
Tony
Hello Charles,
when will AT handle the CE certification and a distributor in Europe?
The next days of flight begin and we have no longer a dealer
which may distribute the AT products. If the CE certification is taken over by the dealers themselves, I could imagine that we can no longer pay for the reloads. We already had to spend 50% -100% more on a reload than in the USA.
Regards Ralf
Any news at all on 75mm hardware?
The local guy is running all 75mm tubes as of Saturday. I expect to have them shipping out next week.
We catoed it at Airfest and haven't had time to get it back on the stand. I will have a list of motors ready for certification later this week. Maybe we can sneak this one in.
All of that is/has been in stock for some time. Not sure who your particular candyman is but vendors should have these in stock.
They are unable to produce enough product to fill everyone's order. I know for a fact the October order had not been completely filled, it was prepaid.I pre-paid an order from Performance Hobbies back in October. He still doesn't have the order in.
Why do some vendors get stock and others don't?
I pre-paid for a 29/40-120 case in june last year from a vendor after losing mine. Order still hasn't been filled. I know it took some time to replenish supplies and start filling back orders but it's closing in on a year. Starting to question the legitimacy of the vendor. I could go right to Aerotech or Apogee now and get one. I have since purchased one, but since I already paid for the other it would be nice to have.
I pre-paid for a 29/40-120 case in june last year from a vendor after losing mine. Order still hasn't been filled. I know it took some time to replenish supplies and start filling back orders but it's closing in on a year. Starting to question the legitimacy of the vendor. I could go right to Aerotech or Apogee now and get one. I have since purchased one, but since I already paid for the other it would be nice to have.
I would cancel the order and get a refund from the credit card company if the vendor doesn't comply with a prompt refund in full. Vendor loyalty is one thing, but bad business is another.I pre-paid for a 29/40-120 case in june last year from a vendor after losing mine. Order still hasn't been filled. I know it took some time to replenish supplies and start filling back orders but it's closing in on a year. Starting to question the legitimacy of the vendor. I could go right to Aerotech or Apogee now and get one. I have since purchased one, but since I already paid for the other it would be nice to have.
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