Elapid
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we went out for a nice afternoon of flying...
the best flights were in the scratch-built 1.6" Sandhawk that went up nicely on Edtes E9-6 motors and came down within about 50 yards of the pad every time. it comes off the pad slowly and is rock-stable in flight...the 6 second delay fired the chute right at apogee.
nice!
i lost the star dart when it took a bad angle off the launch rod and went waaaaaaay downrange on a c6-7
the Cheetah was sent up on an E9-6 also. it seemed to sit on the pad for just an instant before climbing faster and faster into the sky. when i recovered the rocket, the motor casing was gone and the 29mm-24mm adapter was hanging out the end of the mmt. i had the adapter in backward. oops!
the heat of the ejection charge bubbled the paint on the body tube. I didn't realize the adapter was backward, and didn't want to play games with my most expensive rocket, so i grounded her for the rest of the day.
we launched a wizard on an a8-3 and another time on a c6-7. the short shock cord is messing up the top of the body tube. the rocket screams on the 18mm motors and reaches an impressive altitude...
my scratch-built Fade to Black was launched on a c6-5 and performed well.
i sent up my lawn dart on a d12-5, but it shredded at maximum velocity, scattering bits about the field...
we also did a little a3-4t-powered scratch-built that flew well, but my motor mount clip broke when i was taking out the spent casing. oh well.
all in all it was a great day!
next time i'll bring a launch controller that can fire off the AP motors.
still... overall best flightws were from the sandhawk on estes E power.
i'll try to do some screen captures from the video we took.
the best flights were in the scratch-built 1.6" Sandhawk that went up nicely on Edtes E9-6 motors and came down within about 50 yards of the pad every time. it comes off the pad slowly and is rock-stable in flight...the 6 second delay fired the chute right at apogee.
nice!
i lost the star dart when it took a bad angle off the launch rod and went waaaaaaay downrange on a c6-7
the Cheetah was sent up on an E9-6 also. it seemed to sit on the pad for just an instant before climbing faster and faster into the sky. when i recovered the rocket, the motor casing was gone and the 29mm-24mm adapter was hanging out the end of the mmt. i had the adapter in backward. oops!
the heat of the ejection charge bubbled the paint on the body tube. I didn't realize the adapter was backward, and didn't want to play games with my most expensive rocket, so i grounded her for the rest of the day.
we launched a wizard on an a8-3 and another time on a c6-7. the short shock cord is messing up the top of the body tube. the rocket screams on the 18mm motors and reaches an impressive altitude...
my scratch-built Fade to Black was launched on a c6-5 and performed well.
i sent up my lawn dart on a d12-5, but it shredded at maximum velocity, scattering bits about the field...
we also did a little a3-4t-powered scratch-built that flew well, but my motor mount clip broke when i was taking out the spent casing. oh well.
all in all it was a great day!
next time i'll bring a launch controller that can fire off the AP motors.
still... overall best flightws were from the sandhawk on estes E power.
i'll try to do some screen captures from the video we took.
