What's the largest card/paper rocket?

[prfesser]

One of these days I intend to attempt the 1:48 Saturn V from Ton (available here- https://jleslie48.com/gallery_models_real.html )

And that one can be made even bigger by scaling up the plans to 11x17 cardstock. A 1/24 scale Saturn V would be fifteen feet tall, over 16" in diameter. I think it'd take more than a G motor to lift it.

 

[viney266]

I just found this thread...serious inspiration here, and it IS winter.

 

[Raptor 2]

My largest would have to be my 1/48 scale Soyuz.. It is almost 42" long and the largest motor I've used in it is an E18-4W which is what it is flying on in this picture.

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That’s a beauty!!

 

[RocketTree]

Yesterday I built a 4” diameter, 75” tall Black Brant from 24x30 white paper and some cardboard rings/fins. Weight without motor is 280g. 18” homemade tablecloth chute. Mason line shock cord. 24mm motor mount. Should fly around 230’ on a D12-3 in the back yard. If it survives, I’ll try an a E12 or composite E. It’s not pretty, but good for a few smiles!

 

[GlenP]

…cardboard fins… composite E….

Maybe you could launch that with a time-history altimeter that can track flight speed, so you can find the flutter speed of cardboard fins, that will be just slightly less than the peak speed recorded when they shred .