Project Cheeseburger

[CoolRockets]

I have many crazy ideas, a good chunk of which are food related. I have been conceptualizing (vaguely brainstorming) the most groundbreaking high power food model rocket possibly ever; I call it, project cheeseburger. A rocket that manually stacks a cheeseburger with only the speed, ejection, retuning, and touchdown of the rocket. Before anyone starts to laugh at this I have been seriously thinking about it for over a year now. No fancy mechanics. No Tom Foolery, only liftoff with ingredients and recovery with finished burger. I am working on a small scale version using sliders, (micro-cheeseburgers) and thinking about using a modified apogee zephyr. If anyone has tried this please comment on this thread.

 

[Sooner Boomer]

I have many crazy ideas, a good chunk of which are food related. I have been conceptualizing (vaguely brainstorming) the most groundbreaking high power food model rocket possibly ever; I call it, project cheeseburger. A rocket that manually stacks a cheeseburger with only the speed, ejection, retuning, and touchdown of the rocket. Before anyone starts to laugh at this I have been seriously thinking about it for over a year now. No fancy mechanics. No Tom Foolery, only liftoff with ingredients and recovery with finished burger. I am working on a small scale version using sliders, (micro-cheeseburgers) and thinking about using a modified apogee zephyr. If anyone has tried this please comment on this thread.

Sounds like a type of saucer, or maybe a modified spool. Pictures when you get it done!

 

[CoolRockets]

I honestly don’t know IF I will get it done

 

[neil_w]

If anyone has tried this please comment on this thread.

If you're seriously asking if anyone has tried to assemble a cheeseburger with a rocket in-flight, then I feel safe in saying that the answer is no.

 

[ThirstyBarbarian]

If you're seriously asking if anyone has tried to assemble a cheeseburger with a rocket in-flight, then I feel safe in saying that the answer is no.

It’s been done an infinite number of times in the multi-verse, just not in our particular boring reality.

 

[ONAWHIM]

What kind of cheese?

 

[teepot]

Let me get this right. The ingredients are separate on the pad. The Zephyr has the burger parts like outside centering rings. At lift off the parts all slide together. What do you think the burger parts are going to be made of? Now you have my imagination working.

 

[CoolRockets]

Let me get this right. The ingredients are separate on the pad. The Zephyr has the burger parts like outside centering rings. At lift off the parts all slide together. What do you think the burger parts are going to be made of? Now you have my imagination working.

No the zephyr is modified to hold the burger parts in the rocket and the speed and ejection and stuff will put it together

 

[KenECoyote]

The better question is... Why?

 

[tsmith1315]

The better question is... Why?

For a lunch that’s “out of this world”?


It *is* getting pretty tough to find something that hasn’t already been done.

 

[CoolRockets]

The better question is... Why?

Why not

 

[ThirstyBarbarian]

Does the burger cook during flight?

 

[ThirstyBarbarian]

Does it require a second rocket if I want fries with that?

 

[KenECoyote]

How about a drink too?

 

[Handeman]

Putting it all together might be the easy part.

How are you going to keep it together and edible after landing?

 

[CoolRockets]

About the last four comments, ANSWERS!: no the burger does not cook during flight. Yes it requires another rocket if you want fries with that. Sure I could do a drink. The burger will be in some form for a case during the flight (that’s the modified zephyr part).

 

[Sooner Boomer]

Fries...

You want fries with that?

Went out for burger Monday. We were sitting and talking after eating, when I noticed something... or.... For the motor mount, I used a smashed piece of body tube I had put aside, that's why it looks so bad. I think I'll try it out this weekend at Argonia.

www.rocketryforum.com

 

[CoolRockets]

What about em’?

 

[lakeroadster]

1. Buy a Cheeseburger from your fast food place of choice,
2. Impale it, inside the box it came in, onto the HP rocket of your choice,
3. Launch it,
4. Recover it,
5. Eat the cheeseburger,
6. Contemplate why you wasted all that money

 

[KenECoyote]

I'd suggest a burger from...

 

[ONAWHIM]

 

[tsmith1315]

We’ve now seen a zip-tied cheeseburger.

At a respectable altitude.

 

[teepot]

No the zephyr is modified to hold the burger parts in the rocket and the speed and ejection and stuff will put it together

I see. Make the body tube clear so the burger parts are visible. Keep the parts apart with bamboo skewers.

 

[Sandy H.]

Do a slider, a little more simple. But, make the burger pieces start in individual compartments and during the deployment events, use the gravity and/or forces to flip pieces into the next compartment in the right order. I believe cams, latches and possibly a flux capacitor should be used. But I agree that the compartment should be clear so the outboard camera records the assembly.

 

[CoolRockets]

1. Buy a Cheeseburger from your fast food place of choice,
2. Impale it, inside the box it came in, onto the HP rocket of your choice,
3. Launch it,
4. Recover it,
5. Eat the cheeseburger,
6. Contemplate why you wasted all that money

Yes.... -step 6

 

[CoolRockets]

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It’s not the same thing good sir

 

[mooser]

How about a Happy Meal burger and fries with a toy rocket?

 

[CoolRockets]

How about a Happy Meal burger and fries with a toy rocket?

Ehh.

 

[teepot]

How ever you decide. You should do it.

 

[CoolRockets]

How ever you decide. You should do it.

Thank you