Don’t forget the GPS tracker!Minimum diameter flight on a 1/2A3-4T at Fir Grove Grade School.
I tend not have high goals....
Hans.
I did a rocket project years ago for my son’s fifth grade class that concluded with a day of 1/2 A3 flights on the rockets they had built. First rocket launch for all of them except my son. They were absolutely mesmerized, and it is still one of my best memories in rocketry.Minimum diameter flight on a 1/2A3-4T at Fir Grove Grade School.
I tend not have high goals....
Hans.
Minimum diameter flight on a 1/2A3-4T at Fir Grove Grade School.
I tend not have high goals....
Hans.
I'm looking forward to a build/fly date in April at a local elementary school. I'm planning on bringing a cone/spool/spinning rear-eject monstrosity (build thread coming sometime), asking the students if it counts as a rocket, and then flying it on a D-something after they fly their rockets.I did a rocket project years ago for my son’s fifth grade class that concluded with a day of 1/2 A3 flights on the rockets they had built. First rocket launch for all of them except my son. They were absolutely mesmerized, and it is still one of my best memories in rocketry.
Enjoy your flight!
Too heavy. I'd have to switch up to a full A3-4T.Don’t forget the GPS tracker!
If it's a Mosquito and you plan to get it back, that's a pretty high goal.Minimum diameter flight on a 1/2A3-4T at Fir Grove Grade School.
I tend not have high goals....
Hans.
Just a small, little list.I'm probably biting off a bit more than I can chew, but we'll see.
- Break the Tripoli H record
- Break the Tripoli J record
- Break the Tripoli M record
- Get back into local low power flying
- Fly some hybrids
- Start making my own motors
- Break the Tripoli M record again
- Launch 10 DD flights (I finally found BP!!!)
- Build the Wildman Punisher 3"
- L2 Cert on said Punisher
- Build LOC Wolverine
- Prep design for L3 next year (maybe)
- Build a clustered rocket - because the grownups have left and there's no one to stop me!
- Launch more this year than last (stolen from @cwbullet)
Yes! Now I have permission! I have to go tell the wife!You have to have more launches. we cancelled January.
Just get you wife to fly with you then no permission needed.Yes! Now I have permission! I have to go tell the wife!
My goal is to get 1 of my designs kitted every 3 months in 2024...Post you goals for 2024. '
I will start with one - Complete my Nuclear Sledgehammer
Here ya go... you can complete this one tomorrow...Post you goals for 2024. '
I will start with one - Complete my Nuclear Sledgehammer
I have the same dilemma. The dry lake is a mean mistress. If I fly 4 I fix 3. Even if the landing is slow and soft if there is even the slightest breeze it will pull the rocket along the lake bed. When I get to it there could be broken fins and the rocket looks like I took 60 grit sandpaper to it. For awhile now I have only been flying rockets that have already been damaged in some way. A bunch of rockets will never fly there. And some will never fly anywhere. I've put to much time, energy and money into a couple dozen to risk flying them. I think your on the right track.I want to amend/change my stated goals.
My new goal is to make some rockets that I'm not afraid to lose. I spend a LOT of time building even the smallest of my rockets, and I take pride in them. I just completed a dual build (yes, this is weird) of a LOC Forte and an Estes Starlight. I might have spent more time on the Starlight.
But I fly at 5 venues. One of them is a non-issue. If you use a tracker, you get your rocket back. The others are iffy. 300ft is safe, 700ft and you have about a 30% chance of losing the rocket. So.... Do I play it safe and launch low, or take a risk?
I built an Estes High Flier XL, but went full retard on it and added a baffle, and payload bay. Did the fins up right, paint was spot on. Spent 2 weeks on a rocket that should take an afternoon. Don't want to lose it.
However, I also have another one in the build pile..... Just glue the stupid thing together, don't fill the spirals, don't do squat to the fins. Spray it with no primer. Use the Estes rubber band shock cord. ..... And let'r rip!!!! If it disappears, so what?
I need to adapt this attitude. I think I will enjoy the hobby more.
Hans.
I’m mostly 1 with a bit of 2.there seems to be three different kinds of rocket builders :
- The first one is people who have no concern on what it looks like. They just want it to fly.
-The second one is only concerned about how it looks from 10 feet away and just doesn't want to waste their time trying to make a museum piece.
-The third one is a person who wants to make a museum piece.
there seems to be three different kinds of rocket builders :
- The first one is people who have no concern on what it looks like. They just want it to fly.
-The second one is only concerned about how it looks from 10 feet away and just doesn't want to waste their time trying to make a museum piece.
-The third one is a person who wants to make a museum piece.
there seems to be three different kinds of rocket builders :
- The first one is people who have no concern on what it looks like. They just want it to fly.
-The second one is only concerned about how it looks from 10 feet away and just doesn't want to waste their time trying to make a museum piece.
-The third one is a person who wants to make a museum piece.
Oh well, maybe next year?
- Try not to piss off anyone here and also try not to get pissed off lol
ok, I'm between #2 and #3. we have our grass landing fleet, lakebed landing fleet, and concrete landing fleet. can easily tell them apart by the fin damage and crummy field repair glue jobs.there seems to be three different kinds of rocket builders :
- The first one is people who have no concern on what it looks like. They just want it to fly.
-The second one is only concerned about how it looks from 10 feet away and just doesn't want to waste their time trying to make a museum piece.
-The third one is a person who wants to make a museum piece.
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