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I have tried the white – I flew an I242 in my Nike, and it was a great boost. The video looks fine to me by the way – nice flight. I still need to race you sometime (assuming mine…   Read more»

Chris – I think that I am going to try a tether for DD as a side project when I get back to Colorado for the summer…seems like the perfect rocket for one. Right now I’m using a TAC-1 48″…   Read more»

I intentionally made mine pretty simple, so it’s just motor deploy. I didn’t want to have a full electronic deploy or anything. If I were going to make it electronic deploy though, I’d put the E-bay as high as possible,…   Read more»

OK, first off, thanks Chris for that super cool analysis. That graphic is better than any answer I expected to get. Has anyone done one of these DD or mostly just single deploy? May I ask how you guys set…   Read more»

Oh, and I’m up for a 4 inch Smoke drag race anytime 😀

The general trends should hold, though you’re right that the pressures used were sea level standard. I would think the same idea would be fine for our site though, since that’s only a pressure difference of 20% or so.(I’d still…   Read more»

Nice sims, they really illustrate the pressure nicely. I guess that as long as the holes are not located right below the nosecone base, it should work out fine. Do you think these patterns hold truer in lower density/pressures, such…   Read more»

Since this is an interesting problem, and I had a bit of free time, I ran some rough CFD sims on a Nike (this one is 1/4 scale, but the general trends should be valid for any of them that…   Read more»

Cjl and myself had a brief discussion about this awhile back, as I too am considering putting electronics in the nosecone. We thought that there is two ways around it…1. Use an accelerometer based altimeter, like the raven, for deployment….   Read more»

I don’t think so. I pretty much have that album memorized!-Ken 8)

😀 Is that song not off the Meatloaf 2nd album…. Back into Hell? 8)

Maybe this will help, rain dance lycris.While the rain comes downI’ll make some noiseAnd when you’re watching meI’ll make some noiseFar across the distanceIn the furthest of your mindI’ll do a raindanceAnd I’ll send it to your mindRainRainRainRainJoin happy boyAnd…   Read more»

This is gonna be an abnormal summer. Please, keep doing the rain dance. Seems as if our flying season is already over and it hasn’t even started. The greater Western States need significant moisture – every inch counts. MHM is…   Read more»

well crap.

Keep Dancing!!!!

Doppler radar totals only show 0.3″ at the North Site for today’s storm. Cheyenne had unusually high precip compared to the surrounding areas.

Very true.We are getting major moisture here in Cheyenne. I’m sure at the NorthSite also. I was ten miles south of Cheyenne..We have received two or so inches since 9:00am. Water runningfast down the curbs.WOOOOOwooooooI put a coat of paint…   Read more»

Very true I saw that there was 7 fires in Weld co yesterday.

Thanks guys for the feedback. I’ll use West System 105 with 206 (slow) hardener, and just work it in with squeegee thingy and brushes.Warren, yes its overkill, reason being that if it goes well, this will fly solo twice, then…   Read more»

In almost all of my layups there comes a point where I say to myself “oh crap, this layup is doomed!”. Sometimes it’s true, but not usually.