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Really? I’d fly warp in plain QT, honestly. It’s surprisingly difficult to shred a body tube from thrust alone.I partly agree, but mostly disagree…. you can’t fly QT in minimum diameter as it will melt. So you are putting a…   Read more»

I totaly love QT. Its cheap, takes a killer beating and best of all- no effort to finish. Then again I never fly anything over a J and most of my stuff is 3-4″. The only thing I dont like…   Read more»

No doubt, every situation is different. I honestly don’t remember the last time I flew a rocket that wasn’t minimum diameter – Adrian is likely in the same boat…. so from my perspective, QT is not a good solution. For…   Read more»

I don’t think I’d recommend trying a Warp in anything but fiberglass.

I’ve flown Warp9 in unreinforced LOC paper tube, granted not a high performance min diameter design, but no ill effects, just a stupid grin that wouldn’t go away. :DKen

Really? I’d fly warp in plain QT, honestly. It’s surprisingly difficult to shred a body tube from thrust alone.I partly agree, but mostly disagree…. you can’t fly QT in minimum diameter as it will melt. So you are putting a…   Read more»

Apogee is just a reseller. You can get all the info from Always Ready Rocketry, who makes it. The early version 1.0 had issues warping in high heat/high humidity, but they claim it’s cured in 2.0. Not really an issue…   Read more»

Just for science, you know…

Really? I’d fly warp in plain QT, honestly. It’s surprisingly difficult to shred a body tube from thrust alone.

in the video?Did it just shred at altitude?I don’t think I’d recommend trying a Warp in anything but fiberglass.Thanks for the video.

I can’t remember who told me that they’d never use the stuff again… I’ve not seen it, haven’t played with it, and I have an obvious conflict of interest 😀 That said, someone was quite upset with the stuff… Now…   Read more»

Gotta get one of those. For the 2 or 3 frames it’s visible it looks like the rockets bent from acceleration. Too cool

oops it would help if I posted the link!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HuTKabj04o-Sean

Check out this flight with Blue Tube on a Warp 9 J1999. Seems like the tube held up or at least didn’t shred. I dont think they ever found the rocket though. -Sean

posting the raw data in KML (or whatever you can) might help some of these guys help you.

I have longitude and latitude for all

Do you have lat longs for any of those legs or do you have a simmed decent rate under drogue and main?

Okay so we went over the data again and this is what I have found out.First Leg of Tracking: After lift off I didnt get another reading for 30 seconds. Its distance was 1.3miles going 245 degrees true at a…   Read more»

Interesting. That’s the first I’ve heard of a tracking problem with the dog collar. Was this a Kestrel?

This was a custom, 3″ min-dia rocket (not a KestreL)

Here is a website for the Denver winds that day//weather.uwyo.edu/cgi-bin/sounding?region=naconf&TYPE=TEXT%3ALIST&YEAR=2010&MONTH=05&FROM=3012&TO=3100&STNM=72469Adrian and I put together a spreadsheet to calculate wind drift. I can help you get a search area, but first— was the boost straight or do you have an estimated…   Read m…[Read more]

I used the Dog Collar GPS that some club members are in on. My last fix was 1.5 miles WSW of the launch site at 21,600 feet AGL. I’m not quite sure if my main deployed or drogue only. The…   Read more»