GregGleason
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Today was launch day for my Estes Ascender modified for dual-deployment. You can read about the adventures in av bay creation at this link.
I have been wanting to do dual-deployment for over 9 years, and thought this was the best opportunity to try it.
I felt well prepared and today was a great day at the field to put all the theory to the test.
I did the av bay prep and things went well. The drogue charge was set to 1.20 g and 0.96 g for the main.
The only question was how the home-brew chute protectors were going to perform. I did a test last night and there was no appreciable damage and performed well in that it released the chute.
The careful ordering of the recovery gear was surprisingly tedious, more so than building the Aerotech G64 (not that those builds are that big a deal anymore). I can see why riggers are so careful when they pack chutes for recovery.
After everything was buttoned up I weighed it and it came out to 1,032 g, which made it first rocket that I launched that weighed over 1 kg.
It was time to rack it.
Greg
I have been wanting to do dual-deployment for over 9 years, and thought this was the best opportunity to try it.
I felt well prepared and today was a great day at the field to put all the theory to the test.
I did the av bay prep and things went well. The drogue charge was set to 1.20 g and 0.96 g for the main.
The only question was how the home-brew chute protectors were going to perform. I did a test last night and there was no appreciable damage and performed well in that it released the chute.
The careful ordering of the recovery gear was surprisingly tedious, more so than building the Aerotech G64 (not that those builds are that big a deal anymore). I can see why riggers are so careful when they pack chutes for recovery.
After everything was buttoned up I weighed it and it came out to 1,032 g, which made it first rocket that I launched that weighed over 1 kg.
It was time to rack it.
Greg