Pop-pod idea

[Doug Holverson]

Yesterday and today I was wondering why pop-pods weren't built this way? Use a little more mass ahead of the coupler to kick the xerclod back a little more to unhook things. I'm guessing that this was tried back in the day and was more likely to Red Baron. Plus getting that streamer to unfurl from the forward tube.

 

[BABAR]

Wow, I didn’t know xerclod was actually a word

xerclod

Noun

1. (rare) A parallelogram-shaped connector in a model rocket assembly.

Origin

Alteration of "piece X" read upside down.

https://www.yourdictionary.com/xerclod

Have to remember this next time I play scrabble,

 

[dhbarr]

Yesterday and today I was wondering why pop-pods weren't built this way? Use a little more mass ahead of the coupler to kick the xerclod back a little more to unhook things. I'm guessing that this was tried back in the day and was more likely to Red Baron. Plus getting that streamer to unfurl from the forward tube. View attachment 408787

How many years ago did which one of you knuckleheads mint that word? Magnificent!

 

[Ez2cDave]

Wow, I didn’t know xerclod was actually a word

xerclod

Noun

1. (rare) A parallelogram-shaped connector in a model rocket assembly.

Origin

Alteration of "piece X" read upside down.

https://www.yourdictionary.com/xerclod

Have to remember this next time I play scrabble,

I believe that either Geoff Landis, Guppy Youngren, or Dr. Gerald Gregorek, one of the "MIT Boys" in the 1970's, was the first documented Rocketeer to use the term "XERCLOD".

Dave F.