My Duece's Wild!

[e42]

I know that the Duece's Wild! is the must have kit if you are into the "rocket thing" as my wife would call it. I purchased one sometime ago back but had not built it. The local rocket club theme launch this month was clusters so what better rocket to build for the launch.

<img src="https://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb123/wirthr44/DuecesWild.jpg" alt=""><br><br>

I got to launch it two times for the day. On the first flight (2x B6-2), only one of the engines ignited. The rocket left the pad and slowly arced to about 150ft. The parachute deployed and it was recovered without any problems. On the second flight (again 2x B6-2), both motors fire and the rocket soared upward. The chute deployed fine but the Duece landed with one of the motors on the plastic chute producing a fused plastic mess with a couple of holes. Next time I will put in a Mylar chute with larger motors.

--- Ron

 

[jflis]

Love your paint job glad you had a good time with it at the launch!

Next time you should go with a 4 second delay. My experience is that a 2 second delay with a B motor is a bit short.

What other cluster models were at the launch??

jim

 

[cjl]

Very nice

I too have found that the B6-4 is about perfect for this rocket (as is the C6-5). Your deuce certainly is shinier than mine though, that's for sure

 

[paparoof]

Hey I recognize that rocket! Were you the guy with the huge Saturn V?

LOVE the paint job on that - it really suits the rocket.

 

[paparoof]

Your deuce certainly is shinier than mine though, that's for sure

Yeah, but yours is bigger.

 

[loujoe]

c-6 5 is the way to go with the duece's
lou

 

[Lucky 94]

C6-5s, + Deuce's Wild, = :surprised:

I love my deuce so much. But mine is the ugly duckling of my fleet.

 

[e42]

Love your paint job glad you had a good time with it at the launch!

Next time you should go with a 4 second delay. My experience is that a 2 second delay with a B motor is a bit short.

What other cluster models were at the launch??

jim

Thanks for the compliment Jim. I now realized that I should have been using at least B6-4s in this bird. My eyesight is not what it used to be and I misread the small X in my engine chart of my rockets. To my credit though, I believe that an extra 2 seconds of delay would have been disaster for the one engine flight . There were a couple of other Dueces and all were using C6-5s.

There were plenty of clusters going up. For the day there were 24 flights that used a cluster of 2 engines or more. It was the first flight of Jeff Taylor’s Duece’s Wild that was on display at NARCON 2007 and you autographed. It went up twice and both were perfect flights. He also sent up a Tres which land in the 9ft corn but was able to find with some searching. Other clusters included a "BioHazard" Baby Bertha bash on 3 C6-5's, a Semroc Goliath flew for the first time on three B6-6's, a LOC Viper IV on four D12-7's, a Bad Daddy on 3 E9-8's, a Custom Landviper on 3 B6-6, a Wee Viper III on 3 C6-7's, a rocket two years ago for 4A cluster altitude at NARAM 47 went up on four A3-4t's, and so many others.

--- Ron

 

[e42]

Hey I recognize that rocket! Were you the guy with the huge Saturn V?

LOVE the paint job on that - it really suits the rocket.

Thanks for the kind words. While I do not own that Saturn V, I sure wish I did. It was beautiful.

--- Ron

 

[jtaylor]

Ron... I must have some setting wrong or something, because I can't see a link to your Deuce picture that you had posted at the start of this thread.

I flew C6-5's in my Deuce at that launch. It actually isn't the first time that Deuce has flown (it flew last year several times with a different paint job), but it was the first time it flew with the NARCON paint and the Jim Flis autograph.

Cluster Day was fun, even if I did spend an hour in the corn looking for my Tres - it was worth it to get it back.

See you at the next launch!

 

[paparoof]

someone had a Deuce with the "Triple Espresso" logo on the fins too. Seems around here when someone sez "cluster" everyone thinks "Deuce's Wild!"

 

[e42]

Ron... I must have some setting wrong or something, because I can't see a link to your Deuce picture that you had posted at the start of this thread.

I flew C6-5's in my Deuce at that launch. It actually isn't the first time that Deuce has flown (it flew last year several times with a different paint job), but it was the first time it flew with the NARCON paint and the Jim Flis autograph.

Cluster Day was fun, even if I did spend an hour in the corn looking for my Tres - it was worth it to get it back.

See you at the next launch!

Jeff,

Thanks for the correction on the NARCON paint job on your Duece. The cluster theme was great. The next launch should be great since it is the Great UFO Drag Race and the Comanche-3 Drag Race! Now I will just have to build something so I can take part.

--- Ron

 

[jtaylor]

It was my Tres that has the "Triple Espresso" logo on the fins.

 

[paparoof]

Oh that's right. Sorry - I stand corrected.

 

[jtaylor]

No apologies needed here.

Next time I am putting my corn buzzer in my Tres before a launch.

I wanted to come up with a unique and fitting name for my Tres, and with it using 3 motors, Triple Espresso is about the best I could think of. My other ideas were: Triple Play, Three Musketeers, Three's Company, Three Stooges....

 

[jtaylor]

Ron...
Can you email me the picture of your Deuce that you used at the beginning of this thread?

 

[MarkH]

Great looking Deuce!
The Deuce lends itself to original paint schemes.

 

[jflis]

someone had a Deuce with the "Triple Espresso" logo on the fins too. Seems around here when someone sez "cluster" everyone thinks "Deuce's Wild!"

THAT'S what I like to hear

I *love* clusters and I was convinced that the rocketry community did too. 5 years of sales with several cluster birds in our offering proves that they do (cluster kits and EMK's are our best selling items)

We've seen a lot of Deuce's and Tres at NARAM too, which is really nice. Especially when *everyone* knows what it is

Hey, it's the only rocket launched from the sport range that you can identify from vendor row (while you can't really see the rockets, you can clearly see that distinctive smoke trail! )

jim