You never posted your bottom design just the upper design that was based on Kevin's design so do not say it is your design. Give credit to where your idea came from. And yes my upper system was designed from what Kevin did. The design in my drawing for the bottom assembly was my design.
Whatever. Firstly, I think its pretty crass of you to accuse me of copying your design based solely on the viewing of a simple test video which shows absolutely no detail of the design in question. Secondly, what "exactly" is your design? The only thing you ever posted regarding your "design" was an extremely basic sketch that contained absolutely zero technical information. Thirdly, our design has gone through about five different iterations so far for the lower hinge pivot, so the engineering, machining, and testing that has gone into that design has been significant and quite costly. To make the accusation that i somehow stole this from you is not only insulting, its quite absurd.
And if you want to know where the "concept" of my bottom hinge came from it was from a statement made by Will Merchant in the previous referenced thread.
Hi Kevin:
Instead of using two of Dave's gizmos on each strap-on, what about using one forward and have the aft end of the booster retained with a latch that disengages when the booster rotates away from the top? Isn't that essentially what your design does? The other difference being the use of a frangible plastic bolt in Dave's, of course.
Best wishes,
Will
Plus, the lower pivot design i've been working has gone through about 5 different iterations and testing to where we got now. If you are going to accuse me of stealing your design and tell me all the engineering i've put into this particular lower hinge design is "your own", then thats insane. In fact, the lower pivot design has changed about 5 times already and is still evolving. We still need to correct some lateral motion in the pivot design and this will result in yet another machining iteration. And at that, the design still isn't finished. We had major failures on the last test and will be redesigning additional aspects of the design including the upper carrier.
So, i'm not sure what your problem is, but i would recommend acting a bit more mature and stop making blatantly false accusations against others. As they say in science, burden of proof is the sole responsibility of the individual making the claim. So unless you can provide some hard evidence that i "stole" your design, that i advise you keep your trap shut.
This is my last response to this issue.
I have more fun actually doing the designing of everything that actually flying the rocket.
