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Hello rocket friends.
So in an attempt to battle my sadness, anxiety, and chronic pain I am going to build a rocket. I know that seems like a backwards thing to but at the moment it seems better than nothing.
I picked up two Altaira Friede kits off of ebay from the company owner Matthew Johnson. This kit is 4" diameter, 20"long, and flies (not very high lol) on 12 X D12-3. It is modeled after an old sci-fi movie. It has THREE pounds of noseweight to make it stable which is of course an awful lot of noseweight. A large reason for this is the heavy motors....I may build one stock and the other with a 38mm MMT and less nose weight. An H242 is 280 grams, the 12 D12's are like 530 grams. Don't get me wrong, I dig the cluster, but the H242 would be thumpy too...or maybe ye olde H550 Super Thunder.
Ok, going to unbox this sucker.
So in an attempt to battle my sadness, anxiety, and chronic pain I am going to build a rocket. I know that seems like a backwards thing to but at the moment it seems better than nothing.
I picked up two Altaira Friede kits off of ebay from the company owner Matthew Johnson. This kit is 4" diameter, 20"long, and flies (not very high lol) on 12 X D12-3. It is modeled after an old sci-fi movie. It has THREE pounds of noseweight to make it stable which is of course an awful lot of noseweight. A large reason for this is the heavy motors....I may build one stock and the other with a 38mm MMT and less nose weight. An H242 is 280 grams, the 12 D12's are like 530 grams. Don't get me wrong, I dig the cluster, but the H242 would be thumpy too...or maybe ye olde H550 Super Thunder.
Ok, going to unbox this sucker.