Built a handful of estes, almost all stock design except 1 or 2 with minor mods (serperation point, E engine mod).
Giving a shot at a decent bit of changes to a Scion kit.
Taking the 29mm MMT and changing to a 38mm.
Using all 4 fins given instead of the 3 designed for.
Adding an aeropack retainer cone.
Setup the coupler to be an Av bay.
Add substial amount of nose weight to compensate for the retainer, extra fin, aft movement of the motor, etc. Av bay would offset this some maybe but that looks to be around the Cg already.
For now planning on single deploy, but leave options open to modify in the future to be dual deploy. More likely that'll I will get a chute release and do things that way.
ORT file is a modfied one, belive Ke'tesh made the original. Changed up the fin tabs, MMT, have somewhat changed to the aeropack retainer but don't have specs to fully do it.
I ordered a 38->29 adapter as that'll be the usage until chute release/dual deploy to keep altitude down. And need to use the this and built Argent for L1 possible L2 cert to open up more motor options.
Current tailcone on it is just a paper shroud template and the mmt a spare.
View attachment Estes Scion (9712) with 38mm MMT and BT.ork
Giving a shot at a decent bit of changes to a Scion kit.
Taking the 29mm MMT and changing to a 38mm.
Using all 4 fins given instead of the 3 designed for.
Adding an aeropack retainer cone.
Setup the coupler to be an Av bay.
Add substial amount of nose weight to compensate for the retainer, extra fin, aft movement of the motor, etc. Av bay would offset this some maybe but that looks to be around the Cg already.
For now planning on single deploy, but leave options open to modify in the future to be dual deploy. More likely that'll I will get a chute release and do things that way.
ORT file is a modfied one, belive Ke'tesh made the original. Changed up the fin tabs, MMT, have somewhat changed to the aeropack retainer but don't have specs to fully do it.
I ordered a 38->29 adapter as that'll be the usage until chute release/dual deploy to keep altitude down. And need to use the this and built Argent for L1 possible L2 cert to open up more motor options.
Current tailcone on it is just a paper shroud template and the mmt a spare.
View attachment Estes Scion (9712) with 38mm MMT and BT.ork