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For me, Enya made engines before she sang Orinoco Flow.Am I older than you? I lust after O.S. Engines.
For me, Enya made engines before she sang Orinoco Flow.Am I older than you? I lust after O.S. Engines.
I had an Enya 15 MkIII. 2.5cc. Still got the scar from the prop.For me, Enya made engines before she sang Orinoco Flow.
Am I older than you? I lust after O.S. Engines.
Yes please! Rotaries in any size are fascinating.
For me, Enya made engines before she sang Orinoco Flow.
I had an Enya 15 MkIII. 2.5cc. Still got the scar from the prop.
If you find yourself using leaders a lot, you might invest in a wire rope crimping tool, so you can make leaders any size/length.Installed some fishing line leaders that will secure the recovery shock chords and take the heat of the BP ejection charges for the 1st and 2nd stages of my Saturn V.
If you find yourself using leaders a lot, you might invest in a wire rope crimping tool, so you can make leaders any size/length.
One thing I like about our local Ace is that they have the cable, ferrules, and crimping tool all on the floor. You just make up your own leaders at the end of Aisle 2, write down the number and prices of the pieces, and bring it up to the register.Thanks. I've actually got a barn full of tools, including the crimping tools and ferrules for larger cabling.
But for my lil hobby... I'm good with just buying the pre made stuff.
I built this one to replace a the sustainer for a two-stage conversion that destroyed itself on an unstable flight. Double weight in the nose for this, Iām taking no chances.Chop those fins down to a more typical clipped delta and you get both better stability and better performance. Use tape or friction fit the motor and ditch the clip and loop for even more performance.
Hi-Fliers are a good source of nose cones and white BT-20 to build something else out of, but the Viking bulk pack on Amazon is even better.
Since you are getting into project management, just for fun, why not add a Gantt chart for keeping track of it too? Here is a free one we actually use at work and seems to work reasonably well.Today for my own personal rockets and self, i wanted to follow the project management cycle and design cycle from start to finish, so i could gain more understanding of how that works. I followed my books from this semester on design and management but for a level 1 rocket with dual deploy (maybe) that will eventually use a J270 motor. This rocket is based on the LOC-IV, but im laser cutting all my own fins, centering rings and getting the tube from the post office haha
so today i started the work breakout schedule, met with local field officers, designed my requirements list for the rocket including factor of safety, etc etc, and then started sims. I figured i could do a "mini capstone" project on my own and learn some valuable things along the way.
I am also documenting all of this so i can pass on the knowledge to first time level 1's
Thanks i am doing this because i feel like somethings got missed in my Aerospace engineer degree. Im in my senior year and even though i have had a project management course, design course... i feel like i need more practice haha.Since you are getting into project management, just for fun, why not add a Gantt chart for keeping track of it too? Here is a free one we actually use at work and seems to work reasonably well.
https://www.ganttproject.biz/
Good on you for applying project management skills to your own project. It is a good learning exercise.
Engineering programs often donāt really teach project management well. That can led to trouble in 5-10 years when senior management decides that a good engineer will be a good project manager.Thanks i am doing this because i feel like somethings got missed in my Aerospace engineer degree. Im in my senior year and even though i have had a project management course, design course... i feel like i need more practice haha.
One thing we did at my old job that was really helpful was to write each task in a sticky note, then arrange them on a whiteboard with dependencies drawn in. For example, designing in OR comes before drawing centering rings in CAD, which comes before cutting centering rings, etc. Using sticky notes makes it easier to add tasks and dependencies that you missed on the first go-round.Gannt charts and i have not really got along. But thats because some i have used were way to complicated. I will look at the link you posted and try using one again. Its probably because i dont fully understand them.
Thanks for helping
Edit: just looked at the link.. that looks like awesome software thats not confusing or jumbled up. I tried using a template in excel for a gantt chart and it didnt work. I had access to ms project, but not anymore. Ill install this on the train ride to school tomorrow morning
As an engineer who 1) has some exposure to project management and has had some limited participation therein, but 2) runs screaming from the suggestion of becoming a manager, I have observed that when a Gantt chart is too complicated (I don't mean the software, but the chart) it means the plan is too complicated. That's one of the best, if not the best use of a Gantt chart or any other process map; if the process is hard to grasp on a chart then it's going to fail in reality.Thanks i am doing this because i feel like somethings got missed in my Aerospace engineer degree. Im in my senior year and even though i have had a project management course, design course... i feel like i need more practice haha.
Gannt charts and i have not really got along. But thats because some i have used were way to complicated. I will look at the link you posted and try using one again. Its probably because i dont fully understand them.
Thanks for helping
Edit: just looked at the link.. that looks like awesome software thats not confusing or jumbled up. I tried using a template in excel for a gantt chart and it didnt work. I had access to ms project, but not anymore. Ill install this on the train ride to school tomorrow morning
the gantt chart i used was a complicated template for excel. It was super bloated and just messy. I have not had the opportunity to use a real gantt chart, but the link posted above looks very promising and looks like it flows well. I used MS project once about 3 or 4 years ago for a simple project and the UI was not my favorite.As an engineer who 1) has some exposure to project management and has had some limited participation therein, but 2) runs screaming from the suggestion of becoming a manager, I have observed that when a Gantt chart is too complicated (I don't mean the software, but the chart) it means the plan is too complicated. That's one of the best, if not the best use of a Gantt chart or any other process map; if the process is hard to grasp on a chart then it's going to fail in reality.
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