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JW, how big is your streamer? WxL? I wouldn’t want to impose, so I’ll either make one myself out of nylon (or my wife will!) or just buy one. No big deal. I’m more concerned about the decent speed than…   Read more»

In all honesty, I wouldn’t be that concerned about maintaining exactly 50ft/s. It’s perfectly fine to be above or below that by a considerable margin, and your rocket will work fine regardless. Just find a suitably large streamer, such as…   Read more»

My zipper was do to motor deployment. Too early or too late, I don’t know. Kind of weird, because one AT motor (10s) no issue, a bigger AT motor (10s), the big ZIP – probably moving too fast past apogee….   Read more»

How long and what is the width of your shock cord? A shock cord thats to short can very easily cause a Zipper on dual deploy. I like my shock cords larger and longer. They take alot of the steam…   Read more»

JW, how big is your streamer? WxL? I wouldn’t want to impose, so I’ll either make one myself out of nylon (or my wife will!) or just buy one. No big deal. I’m more concerned about the decent speed than…   Read more»

I use a Skyangle 20 for a drogue on my 14lb, 4 inch rocket, and I am planning on using a skyangle 36 on my upcoming 20-25lb project. Honestly, I would lean on the small side of those estimates, or…   Read more»

I to have done the streamers on my flights as well (some as high as 11 to 14k) as nothing but seperation and airdrag. But with my L3 im still trying to get an idea on a chute for the…   Read more»

FWIW, I’ve flown almost 200 HPR flights, and I’ve used drogue chutes exactly three times. I’ve used streamers for some pretty big projects, and the *vast* majority of my shots use nothing at all– I just break them at apogee.I’d…   Read more»

It is just a 12V sealed lead acid battery charger. I plug it in and hooked up to to the wire. I had to vary the wire to get it hot, then I just cut away.Edward

Thanks Edward.Did you need to vary the voltage on the battery charger, or was it pretty much plug and play?And was it a car battery charger?Perhaps I could cluge something together.If mine does not work, I may take you up…   Read more»

I made my own with a 12 v battery charger and some 30 guage nichrome. I’ve long lost the bow I had but if you want you are welcome to the battery charger and nicrhome element.Edward

Great pics Bruce…!Warren

8) The green, green grass of home! 8)

Got the launch and flight pictures from Nadine! ALL launch and flight photos by Nadine Kinney, copyright 2007. You can tell that there was little, IF ANY, roll. Here’s the link:http://www.putfile.com/breidsch/images/114652

I’ll say this – knowing my dad, you’ll have no shortage of pictures, that’s for sure

And, they’ll be great!

I’ll say this – knowing my dad, you’ll have no shortage of pictures, that’s for sure

Bruce, I’ll try and cover for the video with D1 if he is around. If not, I’ll video the flight myself.Thanks, Ken. But remember, you’re on my crew and will be out at the rocket, so you’ll get a good…   Read more»

Bruce, I’ll try and cover for the video with D1 if he is around. If not, I’ll video the flight myself.Ken.

I surely hope you’re flying while I’m LCO (Friday AM 8 to noon and Saturday AM 8 to noon). I’ll give good color commentary… LOLHey, you pushed the button on my L2, why not L3? I bet you will give…   Read more»

I surely hope you’re flying while I’m LCO (Friday AM 8 to noon and Saturday AM 8 to noon). I’ll give good color commentary… LOL Warren