I'm looking for information on the best way to pack the parachute on a low power model rocket.
Thanks
All four rockets we launched recevied damage due to various recovery issues but, all repairs are complete, new rockets have been built, and we are ready for the launch in April to go and try again.
If all of your rockets are repaired, rebuilt, and new rockets constructed in only five day's time, you are now officially my new hero.
Dusting the parachutes or streamers with baby powder or cornstarch will help them to open better in humid conditions. A few year's ago we had a 4-H fair launch where no one remembered the baby powder and we had a lot of casualties due to parachutes not opening that year.
Glad to hear you had a great time!
Pipen and everyone"
Please Don't use cornstarch or cornstarch baby powder, it's flamable! talc baby powder only please![]()
Oops. I am not advocating skimpy building. Just that model rockets don't need to be built like tanks.
Drinking and building, however- well just be careful with the power tools.
If all of your rockets are repaired, rebuilt, and new rockets constructed in only five day's time, you are now officially my new hero.![]()
Don't get too exited. I'm housebound with with a broken leg. Gotta pass the time somehow.
And no, it had nothing to do with rocketry. It's our other passion, Soap Box Derby Racing that gave me the broken leg.
Soap Box Derby Racing must be a contact sport where you race.![]()
Recovery is just that- recovering from a flight. For me, a scratchbuilder, that means not over-gluing fins so that, on a bad landing, they snap off rather than bending and so are easier to repair. Sure, build as strong as you can, but as you gain experience, only build as strong as you need. It's not all about chute packing- easy return to flight is important too. You shouldn't often spack* a rocket completely.
*spack: to wreck, derived from the sound made by a rocket landing in a ballistic or other non-nominal configuration, a contraction of splat and crack. Defined variously as requiring replacement of more than half the fins and/ or at least one of the fuselages (think about it), or requiring so much repair time as to keep one out of the pub, or cutting into one's drinking time by more than two pints.
Not to start a tiff but I think the complete opposite to building. So I have a hard landing on a rocket but planned 2 flights that day. Looks like I am now screwed for the 2nd one if a fin pops off. Of course I am talking a little bit larger rockets. Build your rockets to handle recovery. Alot of people can build rockets. Can you build one that is flyable AGAIN!?!!!
Ben
Not to start a tiff but I think the complete opposite to building. So I have a hard landing on a rocket but planned 2 flights that day. Looks like I am now screwed for the 2nd one if a fin pops off. Of course I am talking a little bit larger rockets. Build your rockets to handle recovery. Alot of people can build rockets. Can you build one that is flyable AGAIN!?!!!
Ben
Pipen and everyone"
Please Don't use cornstarch or cornstarch baby powder, it's flamable! Talc (Regular) baby powder only please![]()
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