jetra2
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Hey all,
Eugene and I went out to the local park today for some good flying. After getting a bit dissapointed by the brief "steamshower" earlier in the day, it cleared up quite nice and we had a nice 1.5 hours of launching under the mostly cloudy Florida skies
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I really didn't fly all that much, since our batteries died, but I got in what I wanted to fly. I flew my scratch built AIM-1987 (thread) on dual B6-4's, my beta test of the primer gray (hey, I'm outta white! sheesh!) Thrustline Tribute on a D12-5, and that was it, IIRC.
The AIM-1987 is a scratch built semi-esque-maybe military style rocket based around the BT-70 using the Fliskits cluster MMT kit. It's a great MMT - easy to use and build! It acheived an altitude of about 500 feet and came down under a nice Thrustline 18" orange nylon chute. No damage, but I just gotta find time to finish this bird! A great liftoff shot was captured by Eugene, and he will post later.
Now the Thrustline Tribute II beta test. This is a real cool BT-80 based rocket with some very cool styling. It has a central 24mm motor and two 18mm's for many, many cluster combinations. I threw a D12-5 into it for its first flight. I used a 18" STL Rocketry T-cup for recovery. I think it was because of the rod azimuth adjuster being a bit loose, but as this bird powered off the pad, it seriously weathercocked, going almost horizontal. It got about 200 feet in altitude before ejection, and the chute opened up nicely. As she descended, it looked to be heading for trees, but that turned out not to be the case. It simply SMACKED a damned concrete light pole! Luckily, the damage was to an already slightly damaged fin, so it wasn't a big deal.
I tried prepping the Tribute for another flight on 2x C6-3's, but by time I got it on the pad, the batteries were dead so no joy.
Eugene will post pix later!
Jason
Eugene and I went out to the local park today for some good flying. After getting a bit dissapointed by the brief "steamshower" earlier in the day, it cleared up quite nice and we had a nice 1.5 hours of launching under the mostly cloudy Florida skies
.I really didn't fly all that much, since our batteries died, but I got in what I wanted to fly. I flew my scratch built AIM-1987 (thread) on dual B6-4's, my beta test of the primer gray (hey, I'm outta white! sheesh!) Thrustline Tribute on a D12-5, and that was it, IIRC.
The AIM-1987 is a scratch built semi-esque-maybe military style rocket based around the BT-70 using the Fliskits cluster MMT kit. It's a great MMT - easy to use and build! It acheived an altitude of about 500 feet and came down under a nice Thrustline 18" orange nylon chute. No damage, but I just gotta find time to finish this bird! A great liftoff shot was captured by Eugene, and he will post later.
Now the Thrustline Tribute II beta test. This is a real cool BT-80 based rocket with some very cool styling. It has a central 24mm motor and two 18mm's for many, many cluster combinations. I threw a D12-5 into it for its first flight. I used a 18" STL Rocketry T-cup for recovery. I think it was because of the rod azimuth adjuster being a bit loose, but as this bird powered off the pad, it seriously weathercocked, going almost horizontal. It got about 200 feet in altitude before ejection, and the chute opened up nicely. As she descended, it looked to be heading for trees, but that turned out not to be the case. It simply SMACKED a damned concrete light pole! Luckily, the damage was to an already slightly damaged fin, so it wasn't a big deal.
I tried prepping the Tribute for another flight on 2x C6-3's, but by time I got it on the pad, the batteries were dead so no joy.
Eugene will post pix later!
Jason
