conman13
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Well, people were right when they say you never actual lose the rocketry bug... It's been about 4 years since I left the hobby before I left for my freshman year of college. I had picked up working on cars as a hobby right before I stopped, but now that my car is done the idea of getting back into rocketry has been in the back of my mind.
Now that I'm 20 and can actually handle the motors and get the proper certifications as well as not needing to worry about scaring girls off with the talk of flying tubes I figured it was about time I start a new project, rather revise and rebuild an old rocket I had built, Aurora. I've revised the old file in order to make the rocket more practical for fitting everything while keeping peak performance in mind. The plan is to eventually fly it on the Loki K1127 38-1200 load that I have from Aurora V1 that I never got to fly due to weather. The build will be fairly similar to the original however I will be using your typical 2x2 twill carbon fiber instead of the carbon/kevlar fabric I previously used. Everything will be hand laid except from the nosecone where I'll be using a thin-wall fiberglass 5:1 conical nosecone from Madcow Rocketry in order to allow the tracker to not have blocked RF signals. I'm still in school until the 15th so the build will start off slow until I'm back home and have all break to get to work on it. Below are some pictures of Aurora V1 along with the OpenRocket file for V2.
Now that I'm 20 and can actually handle the motors and get the proper certifications as well as not needing to worry about scaring girls off with the talk of flying tubes I figured it was about time I start a new project, rather revise and rebuild an old rocket I had built, Aurora. I've revised the old file in order to make the rocket more practical for fitting everything while keeping peak performance in mind. The plan is to eventually fly it on the Loki K1127 38-1200 load that I have from Aurora V1 that I never got to fly due to weather. The build will be fairly similar to the original however I will be using your typical 2x2 twill carbon fiber instead of the carbon/kevlar fabric I previously used. Everything will be hand laid except from the nosecone where I'll be using a thin-wall fiberglass 5:1 conical nosecone from Madcow Rocketry in order to allow the tracker to not have blocked RF signals. I'm still in school until the 15th so the build will start off slow until I'm back home and have all break to get to work on it. Below are some pictures of Aurora V1 along with the OpenRocket file for V2.