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I have an L bird and if I get around to doing my L3, we might have an N bird that will put a hurting on it.WarrenC’mon in, the water is fine :-)I’ll say this… it has been really hard…   Read more»

Speaking of N motors, there are NO official NCR altitude records for that impulse class. Since you and Art are the only ones who have flown N motors at NCR launches, one or the other of you should put in…   Read more»

Hmmm. I know a little someone that will try his best at increasing that number as well.. N motor did you say…….

Good to know, Warren. Thanks. We have that altitude limit…. might as well reach for it. 🙂

John Wilke still holds the maximum NCR altitude record with his L shot at MHM last year – 23K+. We’re hoping to significantly increase that record this year. I have an L bird and if I get around to doing…   Read more»

Knowing and witnessing that JW went 23K plus and into the four-mile club last year, what is the altitude record for NCR? Just curious… and how high can NAR members go towards the 30K waiver? Was it 25K?

No recovery plans for those boosters either… they just came straight in – ideally tumbling or spinning, but ballistic as well.Warren

The motors you guys are referencing were very specific motors, though – with elaborate thrust curves, etc. There was also a research group out there that routinely flew M’s w/ ~1kg payloads to over 100K. I don’t think that with…   Read more»

Warren, that is cool! 🙂

It would not be a problem at any TRA Research launch I know of – the safety code is written to say that basically if metal components are required for the bird to perform as specified, then metal can be…   Read more»

By the way, I’m thinking of turning my dart out of stainless steel pipe. with a solid stainless nosecone.Warren, that would take it into Amatuer Rocketry, far away from TRA or even EX TRA( ). BUT the key to…   Read more»

HAHA a nike apache would be cool I guess but going through the work to get demensions and all that = more time. John i have no practive tommarow ill have time at about 1:00

Can you say Nike Apache?I’ve been drooling over the Performance Rocketry kit.

Kyle, I think we can get in the air by MHM as long as my work doesn’t interfere too much, and as long as you get all your homework done 😉 I’ll get with you in the next few days…   Read more»

This is a kind of project were there are so many different words that create the whole picture. There alot of ways to do some fial some work. I think with going to a perfect scale of the loki( which…   Read more»

BTW, darts are NOT allowed by TRA for altitude attempts. Don’t know why, but they are specifically precluded from the record books.Makes sense to me. Its a rocket altitude record not a dart altitude record.On the other hand, if you…   Read more»

BTW, darts are NOT allowed by TRA for altitude attempts. Don’t know why, but they are specifically precluded from the record books.

Makes sense to me. Its a rocket altitude record not a dart altitude record.

John,But it seems like your talking about “gravity separation” instead of “drag separation”. Just like dropping a hammer and a feather on the surface of the moon, wouldn’t drag be the deciding factor?Could you RockSim it by putting a 1/4A…   Read more»

I’m just going off that site I linked to (the “here” is a link if you click it). It claims 9000 newtons thrust for 1.9 seconds, with a peak velocity just a hair over mach 5 (3900mph), and then a…   Read more»

I was actually thinking about machining the dart body out of thin-wall stainless and using a solid nose. I have enough blueprints to actually duplicate the coupling transition if I can get the machinist where I work to turn his…   Read more»