DaveCombs
Carnivore, Interrupted
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Back in the 80s I had the Estes Teros (EST 1285); I flew it more than any other rocket I had, and it always went up straight and true, and it always came back to me. I especially loved the ramjet nosecone.
So when I got reintroduced to the hobby by my coworker Mark (Loopy 'round these parts) and attended my first high-power launch, I knew what I had to do: I needed to rebuild my favorite rocket, and make it much bigger so I could learn the things that the high-power folks around here know.
Over the last few months I've asked a bunch of questions and received a bunch of help and good suggestions, but what pushed me into it was my Secret Santa present from DanB, a 1:1 scale CAD drawing of my Teros, scaled to 4x. I'll be using this drawing to get the parts and assemble it.
When I'm done, I'm looking at a Level 1 attempt with it as this is going to be a pretty big rocket (the biggest I've ever made, for certain). But for now, I'll be posting a lot of pictures and probably asking an occasional question.
Wish me luck; here we go!
(Just in case you can't see the pictures, I'm having some cable problems that should get fixed within a couple of weeks (or so they tell me). So, be prepared for an occasional outage.)
So when I got reintroduced to the hobby by my coworker Mark (Loopy 'round these parts) and attended my first high-power launch, I knew what I had to do: I needed to rebuild my favorite rocket, and make it much bigger so I could learn the things that the high-power folks around here know.
Over the last few months I've asked a bunch of questions and received a bunch of help and good suggestions, but what pushed me into it was my Secret Santa present from DanB, a 1:1 scale CAD drawing of my Teros, scaled to 4x. I'll be using this drawing to get the parts and assemble it.
When I'm done, I'm looking at a Level 1 attempt with it as this is going to be a pretty big rocket (the biggest I've ever made, for certain). But for now, I'll be posting a lot of pictures and probably asking an occasional question.
Wish me luck; here we go!
(Just in case you can't see the pictures, I'm having some cable problems that should get fixed within a couple of weeks (or so they tell me). So, be prepared for an occasional outage.)