a great product but unavailable for those of us living on SS Income.The Kate 2.0 system has GPS based deployment at apogee. www.Multitronix.com
a great product but unavailable for those of us living on SS Income.The Kate 2.0 system has GPS based deployment at apogee. www.Multitronix.com
a great product but unavailable for those of us living on SS Income.
Working on it...An effective and affordable active flight verticalizer system to keep vehicles close to their intended attitude (e.g. 85˚ above the horizon) to reduce dispersion of failure/ballistic trajectories and increase safety on the flight line.
I know, I know, I'm working on it...A CFD flight sim that handles arbitrary shapes and inputs the design from standard CAD file formats and can work as a plug-in with OnShape, SolidWorks, etc.
not to spoil the magic, but the "new" C5-3 is a full 2 Netwon-seconds less in power than the Original was. if you'd like I can post the NAR S&T from the original and the current and you can see the difference.More core-burn or partial-core-burn black powder motors (that have higher thrust than what's available now). It was great that Estes brought back the "Super C" C5-3. How about a C5-0 booster? How about bringing back the B14, especially the B14-0 booster. It would be great to have a D16-ish-0 booster as well.
Yup, I know that composite 18mm and 24mm motors are available-- I have them, and I fly them. But you can't do direct staging with them, nor do they have the nostalgia of traditional BP motors.
yeah I'll take a maxi LTV Scout powered by F's......Wow, a lot of great ideas. In have to admit, though, that the first thing I thought of was for Estes to re-issue their LTV Scout kit! I had one back when and it was one of my favorites. With the new composite LP motors it would be even better.
Between all of our great vendors and suppliers we can clone just about anything these days, but the Scout was pretty accurate scale model and used a bunch of odd tube sizes, so it's tough to do right.
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Long burning low power. Say 10 seconds "C" impulse. I'd put one in a B
I think these are called childrenOn that topic, trained rocket recovering monkeys.
Long burning low power. Say 10 seconds "C" impulse. I'd put one in a Big Bertha.
Okay, maybe not 10 seconds on a C. But a C3, and a D6, and a... Also, and especially, on the high thrust end, like the B14, a C16, or something like that. All in BP so they're all direct stagable. I know this is harping on an old these for me.I'd love to see some more really interesting motors!
The FlisKits sci-fi kits have (or had) sci-fi blurbs that fit together into a combimed story. It's not all you're looking for, but maybe you could work with it.So, this is going to be somewhat off the wall but stems heavily from having a 3 and a half year old son. I'd love to see some good storytelling to go with kits. Think how toys like Transformers or Lego involve rich character development with TV shows, movies, comics, books, etc.
Wow, really? I wanna put a rocket up to GEO altitude.Kate 2 has unlimited altitude capability.
Yeah, agreed.An HPR magazine...but hey, I know why not...
How about mid power dual thrust? E, F, and G motors with extra large initial kicks would be good.38mm and 54mm dual-thrust motors would be nice. CTI has the K590 54/6G and L640 54/6XL, but some I's, J's, and smaller K's would be just the ticket for some nice MD flights.
Not to mention input from OR and RS.A CFD flight sim that handles arbitrary shapes and inputs the design from standard CAD file formats and can work as a plug-in with OnShape, SolidWorks, etc.
The return of Rocketflite's titanium-flamed BP motors. They were very impressive!
wireless launch controllers
That's just if it's over 62.5 grams of propellant right? Some one should make C, D, E, and F motors(with BP and titanium). Surely there would be quite a few people who would buy them.a person would need an LEUP these days to fly one of these motors.
There are options if you’d like to minimize components made in China - ASP, Rocketarium, LOC, North Coast Rocketry, SBR/Fusion Rockets, FlisKits, Squirrel Works, Mach1, Madcow, Discount Rocketry, Balsa Machining...they all produce LPR and MPR kits.
We - the enthusiasts who frequent forums and such - really aren’t the primary market for Estes so price point matters more for them than the smaller “specialty” kit producers. But it wouldn’t be a bad thing to see kits from Estes with a “Made in USA” label.
well 1st it would have to pass the NAR safety code.Hello Shockie,
There are at least three wireless launch control systems available right now. Maybe there are more. So I can only guess that they are not what you're looking for in a wireless launch system. Could you give us more details as to what you're looking for in a wireless launch system?
Brad
like communist Vietnam.....? anybody remember them? American companies ought to be ashamed of themselvesOr if not "Made in the USA", at least somewhere in Asia that's NOT China would be nice. Lots of other choices for countries.
I wouldn't prefer Vietnam, personally. Didn't want to get too political.like communist Vietnam.....? anybody remember them? American companies ought to be ashamed of themselves
A low cost custom balsa parts service like BMS used to be. Laser cussing fins and CRs couldn be done in other materials as well. BMS had some problems with their catalog of configurable dimensions which a new outfit could do better, I hope. At low cost for low power.
Yes. Yes it is. But laser cussing is also what happens after writing a forum post about lasers on a phone keyboard. (I hate thumb-talking.)Is laser cussing what happens when the NC code fails because it was written by drunken clowns?
Eggtimer Rocketry flat-rates shipping, we typically adjust the charges annually. International shipping is usually via First Class parcel... typically it takes 2-3 weeks. First Class rates are pretty consistent given the relatively low weight of most of our shipments, so we average them out based on the typical size/weight of an equivalent shipment... sometimes we make a dollar on the shipping, and sometimes (more often, really) we eat two or three dollars on it. We're not going to get real worked up about a couple of dollars. FedEx shipping is a different story... for that, we weigh and measure the package and get a hard quote from our shipping partner, and we won't send you the invoice for the product until we have a good number. All of that requires some interaction with the customer, of course, but we don't do the "Add to Cart" thing anyway.One thing I would like, although not directly 'rocketry related', is for vendors, and mainly web store code to be able to calculate & work out the shipping to (at least) Canada correctly & consistently.
I don't see how hard it an be to have a web store actually recognize my address (it does) but then only spit out only UPS or Fed Ex "express international" shipping at $100 or $200!! (Greatly exceeding the cost of the item in most cases!)
I am OK with USPS, but I shouldn't have to accept whatever, only to then have an e-mail stream back & forth with the vendor to work out the exact 'parcel post' shipping..
One thing I would like, although not directly 'rocketry related', is for vendors, and mainly web store code to be able to calculate & work out the shipping to (at least) Canada correctly & consistently.
A low cost custom balsa parts service like BMS used to be. Laser cussing fins and CRs couldn be done in other materials as well. BMS had some problems with their catalog of configurable dimensions which a new outfit could do better, I hope. At low cost for low power.
I'd like 90% of the rocketeers to stop being sooo cheap.. some will buy something to save a nickel all while the place selling the item thats more expensive end up out of business.. there is major financial support/revenue issues...and like I said to a vendor last night on the phone, and I will quote. "I buy from you to keep you in business"
God help us all if these vendors don't make money..
So let's save 7 cents on a thrust ring..
I would like to see more kits, parts, motors components NOT made in china. I will pay the extra dollar to get a rocket kit made in the US.
Estes, are you listening????
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