What did you do rocket wise today?

[lakeroadster]

Bought some streamer material at Walmart to use as recovery wadding. Cost was 97 cents and it is 1-3/4" x 150 ft long. When I got home I checked to see how fire resistant it really is... it will not burn... no way... no how.

Tape a penny to one end of the streamer and roll the paper around the penny. Slide the streamer into the body tube, then pack the chute.

At ejection the streamer falling to earth does 3 things... it looks cool... it helps in locating the rocket in the sky and it helps with directional location in regard to locating the rocket.

 

[Greg Furtman]

Hope you're not planning to use that all up at one launch...

(although Boris Katan could, now that I think about it)

So could kurinin

 

[Greg Furtman]

Tried and failed to rescue my stuck rocket today. Drone couldn't get near the tree. It's dropped to about 25 feet up but is wrapped round the branch. D'oh! We tried tying some fishing line round a rock and flinging it round the branch to lever it down. However it's a pine tree so the line was too weak. As much as I hate it I think i will end up chucking some tow rope up there and snapping the branch off. Sad times.

Take a look at this. I built one using bright pink braided fishing line and then attach parachute cord to the fishing line, pull the parachute cord back up over the limb & use that to work the rocket off.

 

[neil_w]

Got some decal art ready.

 

[Nytrunner]

Took a look at the yard sale purchase that just arrived

 

[prfesser]

Took a look at the yard sale purchase that just arrived

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Ahhh, you don't want that. The author is ugly and his wife dresses him funny.


Best -- Terry

 

[John Kemker]

Ahhh, you don't want that. The author is ugly and his wife dresses him funny.


Best -- Terry

If anyone should know...

And don't blame Mrs. P'rfesser for how you dress!

 

[FlyingMonkey]

glued on a fin. 2nd one this week. This project is moving right along at Boeing speeds.

 

[rharshberger]

View attachment 420876glued on a fin. 2nd one this week. This project is moving right along at Boeing speeds.

Looks an awful lot like a Nike Hercules sustainer...Boyce Aerospace?

 

[FlyingMonkey]

Looks an awful lot like a Nike Hercules sustainer...Boyce Aerospace?

Yup.

 

[Ronz Rocketz]

Bought some streamer material at Walmart to use as recovery wadding. Cost was 97 cents and it is 1-3/4" x 150 ft long. When I got home I checked to see how fire resistant it really is... it will not burn... no way... no how.

Tape a penny to one end of the streamer and roll the paper around the penny. Slide the streamer into the body tube, then pack the chute.

At ejection the streamer falling to earth does 3 things... it looks cool... it helps in locating the rocket in the sky and it helps with directional location in regard to locating the rocket.

I was surprised that the Walmart streamers works better than the Estes wadding.

 

[mbeels]

Joined Tripoli.

 

[Nytrunner]

Joined Tripoli.

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Maybe he needs the book more than I do currently

 

[Five]

I added some yellow to my spray paint collection along with some wood filler, for my loc precision’s Hi-Tech when it arrives.

 

[mbeels]

Maybe he needs the book more than I do currently

I don't expect to do any EX in the near future, but it seems like an interesting topic to learn about.

 

[Nytrunner]

I don't expect to do any EX in the near future, but it seems like an interesting topic to learn about.

Me too lol, that's why I bought the book

 

[beeblebrox]

Brings back unpleasant memories.

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I want one...looks like a blast...lol

 

[krislhull]

Finally picked up a motor and hardware that @Flyfalcons has been holding onto for me for the past 9 months. The last piece needed for my L3 attempt is in hand, now it’s just when will we have another launch, and will it be one I can actually attend?

 

[Peartree]

Now that I finally unpacked more boxes, sorted and reorganized shelves, and cleared space on my workbench, I started repairing/preparing a bag of parachutes for my range box. Once that's done, I'll start on repairs to the mangled fleet in drydock/spacedock.

 

[o1d_dude]

I want one...looks like a blast...lol

The unpleasant memory or the RPG?

 

[jeffjblack]

I feel like I was a fly inside the payload bay... Lots of lenses!

Thanks! There is so much 1080p video here, I will be revisiting this a few more times.

 

[jeffjblack]

Soak in water to destroy. Exercising the option for the first time. Estes requested this after another motor in the pack CATO'ed. Estes warranted the engine. Those Estes folks are good people.
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What motor was this?

 

[Flyfalcons]

Started missing my USRockets Supersonic, so I scratched up another 24MD, with Estes parts.

 

[o1d_dude]

Started missing my USRockets Supersonic, so I scratched up another 24MD, with Estes parts.View attachment 420970

Looks a lot like my LaserLOC’s in half-stack configuration.

 

[Wally Ferrer]

Looks a lot like my LaserLOC’s in half-stack configuration.

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Differing nose cones, otherwise fairly indistinguishable... all nice.

 

[o1d_dude]

Differing nose cones, otherwise fairly indistinguishable... all nice.

Ryan builds nice rockets. Be interesting to see what he does with this new bird.

 

[kuririn]

Started missing my USRockets Supersonic, so I scratched up another 24MD, with Estes parts.

Also lost my USR Supersonic a few months ago.
Wasn't even flying a 24mm motor. D21-7 with adaptor.
Another one in the build pile.

 

[Flyfalcons]

Looks a lot like my LaserLOC’s in half-stack configuration.

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Those are nice! Honestly I came up with the fin shape by digging the pattern sheet out of my Designer Special kit and just going for the delta shape unmodified. I cut four fins like the Supersonic, then went into OR and decided three would do, then figured how short I could make the rocket with a half ounce of added nose weight. In the end, a lot more effort went into something that may or may not be found after a half-mile shot on an E20 than I could have gotten away with, but the actual building part was painless enough.

 

[o1d_dude]

Those are nice! Honestly I came up with the fin shape by digging the pattern sheet out of my Designer Special kit and just going for the delta shape unmodified. I cut four fins like the Supersonic, then went into OR and decided three would do, then figured how short I could make the rocket with a half ounce of added nose weight. In the end, a lot more effort went into something that may or may not be found after a half-mile shot on an E20 than I could have gotten away with, but the actual building part was painless enough.

I’m planning to break Mach AND the One Mile Wall at our rocketry club on a BT60...oh my.

 

[kuririn]

Received in the mail from Boyce Aerospace today. 3D parts for a Space X Dragon 2/Falcon 9 build from the Apogee plans in the latest Peak of Flight newsletter.
Removed the landing legs and grid fins from their respective "rafts".
Need to contour sand them.
Other parts from erockets (tubes, couplers, centering rings, bulkhead) arriving soon, ETA this Saturday.

Yeeha!