While I was waiting to gather in certain pieces of this build I've built 18 other rockets, I need to start getting refocused on this set of challenges, for which there are MANY!
Prototype SN1 of the airstart system is sitting on the workbench right now, hopefully I'll get that tried out today and figure out what I need to do differently for future device.
Also, taking my first pass at the Christmas light method for electronic ejection charges.
3D printer is here and working the way I expect about 50% of the time but having some underextrusion issues that don't support rocketry builds at the moment, and that also has been consuming time. Hoping to create the tower via 3D printing with built in rails.
Have a dart prototype ready for final assembly, and an Estes "Spin Control" rocket to assess spin stability relative to the hitiles, and their canards. Might take on a side project to see how much canard CP I can ignore versus their spin rate for a non-spinning fin can, but that would be an experiment with many, many rockets built...might need to figure out how to build something more modular to support instead.
Working to roll my own tubes at 1:1 scale, working on getting a craft paper core, that I can glass to get to 4.9" OD. I have the first layer set but keep putting off moving it forward with other projects distracting me.
Also have glassed ~3" tubes I fell into, but also some ~4" shipping tubes someone had laying around after a project that they saved for me.