What is your favorite 24mm rocket?

[Marlin523]

Please tell us which one and why.

 

[DAllen]

I have a scratch-built clone of a Goblin with 2 oz. glass on the fins for rough landings with the streamer. D12's are a hoot in that thing. Gotta try one of those 24/40 D9's in it sometime.

-Dave

 

[tquigg]

Toss up between my Estes Big Daddy or my Vaughn Brother's Rocketry Stretch Blobbo. I like the Big Daddy because I beefed it up and fly it on D12's up to F39's. The Blobbo takes anything I toss at it, including chad staging.

 

[Zack Lau]

Anything that ejects at apogee with an E9-8 is about as good as it gets on the fields that I have flown at--long motor burn yet it doesn't get so high that you can't get the rocket back.

 

[Patch]

Like the AeroDart and the Big Daddy.

 

[Shade]

My modified Comanche-3, D12's on the first and second stage, E9 on the
third stage. Have not had the opp. to launch it with all 3 stages yet. need
a bigger field. Did get it up on 2 on a very calm day, lost sight of it but hear
the ejection. I came down just a few hundred feet from the pad.

 

[rocket999]

I like the big daddy. I built it stock (no mods) a while ago and it flies great. It flies great on F24 and F39s. A fun kit.

 

[jim fustini]

A fat boy I modified to 24mm.

 

[Bravo52]

I have two.......

Sirius Cestris

and

a scratch built Arapaho E

 

[jflis]

For me it's the ACME Spitfire and the Nantucket Sound

In a past life, it was the Cherokee D

 

[Trident]

For me it's the ACME Spitfire and the Nantucket Sound

In a past life, it was the Cherokee D

So who were you back then?

 

[Handeman]

My favorite is my Estes Patriot I modded to zipperless 24mm and found a LED strobe that works for nose cone weight and night flights.

 

[Buckaroo]

Thrustline Duster, it flies great from C11s all the way up to F39s

I even upscaled one for my L1 bird

I am a big fan of John Rowan-Stern's designs. Even though many of them are simple 3 & 4FNC they all seem to have the right size/scale/balance/line... whatever combination of things that give a rocket the right "look" At least in my eye

Close second would be the Arapahoe E (Don't have one built at the moment) and the Mighty Mick. I've also got an Astral Lance kit, but I've never even seen one flown before

 

[MarkII]

My choice changes after every launch I attend. Right now it's a 3-way tie between my Nova, my Orbit and my Echo-1 (cloned FSI models built with parts from Semroc). I have built quite a few rockets with 24mm mounts and I have many more in unbuilt kits, but I have only launched a handful of them so far due to space restrictions. None of them have had more than 2 or 3 flights, either. Because of that I haven't really settled on a single favorite 24mm rocket yet.

MarkII

 

[Viperfixr]

Qmodeling Stiletto...love the look...fun kit to build...flies great

 

[jflis]

So who were you back then?

Jimmy Good Toad, scratch builder

 

[Gillard]

has to be edmonds Ecee thunder, flies great on an E9-4 and its a huge glider

 

[Tom W]

A copy of a scratch built over on EMRR called the Flat Black by Larry Brand. A tube fin rocket that flies on anything from a C6-5 to a E15-7. I've never had anything but straight-stable flights with this rocket. When the wind kicks up this is the rocket I reach for.

 

[Bill P]

My favorite was my Sunward Maverick. She died a quick death via rekitting... too many F39's for the cardboard "intakes". Another is needed to replace her and replace her I will.

 

[El Cheapo]

My favorite, by far, is my daughters Mercury Engineering Invader that flies on single, dual and triple 24mm. A not so close tie for second is my Estes SM-3 Seahawk and Stormcaster

Photos Courtesy of Aeromoe

 

[NAR29996]

TLP Matra Magic R.550. Worked to get the real one qualified to be carried on the F16. Mine gives nice, slow majestic flights. I've got about 2 dozen flights on it, mostly F24's and F39's.

 

[dpower]

I'd say one of these two. Why? The 'D' was my first 24mm bird. I've built, flown, and lost a few of them. The 'E' is a great continuation of the theme. D-Power!

 

[The EGE]

Fliskits Nantucket Sound. Low, loud, and smoky. I've flown it on E18-4W loads twice, and I don't think there's a 24mm motor that it can't use as long as the delay is right.

 

[rocketdad0934]

mine would have to be te acme spitfire first then the richter rechter second!!! though my modified rhino is a real rush to fly!

 

[rocketguy101]

My scratch built Jupiter-120 (build thread in the archive)

Cherokee-D (it was my first "D" rocket too!) edit: that's a clone in the pic

 

[H_Rocket]

The Loc Viper IV

In large quantities

 

[The EGE]

The Loc Viper IV

In large quantities

When they get off the pad, of course.

 

[KHamel]

Dynastar Snarky, flown many times, waiting to be repaired has a small zipper. Flown mostly on E18s and F24s.

 

[SwingWing]

A fat boy I modified to 24mm.

+1

 

[garydogwood]

i have to say it is an estes stormcaster. never had a bad launch on it. works great on D12s. high and straight. i did crack a fin once but a little super glue and it has lasted many flights. did 2 launches with it today and they were about a perfect as it gets. if i remember correctly, rocksim shows about 750 - 800 feet on a D12.

2nd choice would be a big daddy but it really needs a bit more powerful engine. the d12s work nice but would like a little more ummph and altitude.

gw