Gonna catch it on the weekend

Thanks Cato. Anyone got interesting stories about the twilight years?

Think I’ve only flow their B motors, used to get them in packs of 6. Never had any issues, the diameter is a little less than Esties and I suspect a little lighter.

My CAD skills are still a bit ordinary. I sometimes have ideas in my head that I can't translate into CAD designs, but I am slowly improving. Sounds like where I am at. I drive SolidWorks like a Neanderthal I think, but a bit of head-scratching gets me where I need to go in the end :) . Arg! You gu...

Really impressed that we’ve been able to field such a successful team

I’m a little obsessed about fin airfoils so would love to see the 3D model

Welcome to the forums Frank.

Looks like it will do nicely for a cert flight. If you add fibre glass it will put the weight up, might want to plan on bigger motors.

As OTT said the easiest way is to use motor ejection. If you really want use an electronic mechanism then Air Commander has a bunch of information on doing this in a number of different ways, but it is based around using a typical water rocket body. While you can use a timer for deployment, I would ...

Added a centre on the tailstock end http://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1EGpGWczp2QeeVocN5HS-HRXAUM984DEc Will drop some epoxy in the cracks next and when cured turn to near final shape. turned to near final shape and then coated with thinned (10%) epoxy (west systems) to seal and provide...

Hi All I've started on a 4" vehicle design that includes a boat tail for base drag minimisation. The addition of a boat tail makes significant improvements to the simulated altitude and the motor this vehicle is based around allows for a nice boat tail implementation. The current overall desig...

Way to go

OverTheTop wrote:Quite a good mission. It is good that OCISLY made it through unscathed. Got a good scare though .

Would have been something to be standing on the boat watching that happen.

That came pretty close to landing. To me it looked like it hovered maybe 30 meters off the deck and veered off away from the ship. I’m wondering if it was just pushing the timing too fine and startup happened a slight bit quicker than expected so was too high and the computer aborted. Alternatively ...

Yikes, I’ll have to remember to look out for that. Do you have a picture of how it looked before hand?