Hi all,
I'm a BAR who decided to build a boost glider on my first summer back to the sport. I built up the QCR Never Loop I 13mm. I trimmed it out the best I could but it still stalled a little tiny bit. It seemed to be adequate so I loaded it with Estes 1/2A3-4T and hoped for the best!
Well, the flight wasn't all that pretty as I'll describe. The rocket pitched radically into the wind and ended up doing a loop under power. It almost seemed that it was under power as it was flying back to earth. At about 3 feet from certain death, the ejection charge went off, the booster separated and the little glider came squirting out horizontally clipping the tops of the grass! Honestly, I don't know how the glider got off but it did.
The booster boom was stuck into the ground with no damage, any by excited boy ran all of 50' to recover the glider.
All recovered, no damage, all fingers accounted for - must have been a good flight.
So, I really want advice on what went wrong and how to correct it on the next flight.
Looking forward to flying it right next time!
kruland
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I'm a BAR who decided to build a boost glider on my first summer back to the sport. I built up the QCR Never Loop I 13mm. I trimmed it out the best I could but it still stalled a little tiny bit. It seemed to be adequate so I loaded it with Estes 1/2A3-4T and hoped for the best!
Well, the flight wasn't all that pretty as I'll describe. The rocket pitched radically into the wind and ended up doing a loop under power. It almost seemed that it was under power as it was flying back to earth. At about 3 feet from certain death, the ejection charge went off, the booster separated and the little glider came squirting out horizontally clipping the tops of the grass! Honestly, I don't know how the glider got off but it did.
The booster boom was stuck into the ground with no damage, any by excited boy ran all of 50' to recover the glider.
All recovered, no damage, all fingers accounted for - must have been a good flight.
So, I really want advice on what went wrong and how to correct it on the next flight.
Looking forward to flying it right next time!
kruland
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