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Up to a certain size (when vinyl becomes more appropriate), waterslides are great. Although body wraps can definitely be... frustrating.
What are your least favorite (or most hated) rocket designs?
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Up to a certain size (when vinyl becomes more appropriate), waterslides are great. Although body wraps can definitely be... frustrating.
Can't say I hate any type of rocket in particular. Pretty much every rocket is cool in one way or another, even if only as a stepping stone in a rocketeer's progress to something else.
The conversation has been interesting though.
Edit: originally said "dry mass" but meant "wet mass"
Though I certainly agree they're a PITA to pack. My solution for 18 and 24mm has been to use a piston to solve the ejection problem and a mylar streamer to solve the "tiny rocket easily lost in the sky by olde eyes problem."
The conversation has been interesting though.
Half the mass in ballast?! That is seriously impressive, whether people think it's favorite or least-favorite material. Must have been something to be designing it and suddently hit upon doubling the wet mass as the optimum. As someone who enjoys designing more than building and nearly as much as flying, a eureka moment appeals to me, whether it happened quite that way or not.
Edit: originally said "dry mass" but meant "wet mass"
Well, 18mm motors in airframes > 18mm just seem wasteful
Though I certainly agree they're a PITA to pack. My solution for 18 and 24mm has been to use a piston to solve the ejection problem and a mylar streamer to solve the "tiny rocket easily lost in the sky by olde eyes problem."
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My list is too long:
1. 99% of all the rockets out there that look like 99% of all of the other rockets= tall, skinny, 3 rear swept fins. 2 people at a launch " What brand of rocket is that?", "I don't know as somebody gave it to me and the package was missing ,so it could be one of 50 different brands or 50 different models"
2. science fiction designs.
3. porta-potty (yes, multiple people have done it long before you, and it's not "cute"
4. crayons
5. spools- just plain non-rocket FUGLINESS
Yes, I'm old, really tired of the same stuff, decade after decade. Somebody just shoot me.
1. 99% of all the rockets out there that look like 99% of all of the other rockets= tall, skinny, 3 rear swept fins. 2 people at a launch " What brand of rocket is that?", "I don't know as somebody gave it to me and the package was missing ,so it could be one of 50 different brands or 50 different models"
2. science fiction designs.
3. porta-potty (yes, multiple people have done it long before you, and it's not "cute"
4. crayons
5. spools- just plain non-rocket FUGLINESS
Yes, I'm old, really tired of the same stuff, decade after decade. Somebody just shoot me.
Uh, Yes there is... Despite my love of clusters (don't understand all the hate here!)...
I'm shocked nobody has mentioned the horrendous 36 D-squared. Does anyone still have the sketches of its original livery with all the feminine charms intact? i.e. the 36 Double-D
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Man that's a lot of hate for a hobby that you supposedly like.My list is too long:
1. 99% of all the rockets out there that look like 99% of all of the other rockets= tall, skinny, 3 rear swept fins. 2 people at a launch " What brand of rocket is that?", "I don't know as somebody gave it to me and the package was missing ,so it could be one of 50 different brands or 50 different models"
2. science fiction designs.
3. porta-potty (yes, multiple people have done it long before you, and it's not "cute"
4. crayons
5. spools- just plain non-rocket FUGLINESS
Yes, I'm old, really tired of the same stuff, decade after decade. Somebody just shoot me.
I had one of those until very recently. It was only about two weeks after I stupidly threw it out that I saw that there is some demand for a fin template for it.
You know what hasn’t made the list? Short, fat, 4 rear-swept fins. Have we found ourselves a fanatical Big Dart (I mean, uh, Big Daddy) devotee?
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I will try to name my next one Big Darty.
I hope all my skinny Estes Rockets end up in the trees or crashed so that I can end up with rockets 2.6 inches in diameter and up. All my future rockets will have 4 fins minimum. " real rockets have four fins"
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