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Bret Packard replied to the topic "L3 Project Construction Tips" – 6 years, 10 months ago
Can’t wait to watch it go Bruce. I’ll be sure to have some celebratory beer for the flight (sometime AFTER the range closes )You know though, the great thing about beer is that it’s good regardless of the outcome… Read more»
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Ken Plattner replied to the topic "L3 Project Construction Tips" – 6 years, 10 months ago
It’ll be perfect. No worries. You have done a great job building your bird and with all of the support you have had, I can’t imagine anything going wrong. But it is rocketry after all…
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Bruce R. Schaefer replied to the topic "L3 Project Construction Tips" – 6 years, 10 months ago
And the dog…
Ha! Not so bad. It will fly when I’M ready. If ANYTHING I feel isn’t right, she’ll fly another day. Which is why I’m not going to put the reload in until just before the flight.
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Ken Plattner replied to the topic "L3 Project Construction Tips" – 6 years, 10 months ago
And the dog…
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Bruce R. Schaefer replied to the topic "L3 Project Construction Tips" – 6 years, 10 months ago
Well, guys, picked my rocket up from Art today… had this big smile on my face the whole drive home, and it wasn’t just the fumes from the clear-coat. He did an excellent job. Jim Amos will get my WRC2… Read more»
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Conway Stevens replied to the topic "L3 Project Construction Tips" – 6 years, 10 months ago
That will be another thing about them… And it will be very soon.
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Chris LaPanse replied to the topic "L3 Project Construction Tips" – 6 years, 10 months ago
Heck – I already know which is the best…Even though I have a new R-DAS tiny (which I can’t wait to fly, BTW), I’ll still always fly at least one RRC2X in my rockets, as they are great, simple, reliable… Read more»
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Bruce R. Schaefer replied to the topic "L3 Project Construction Tips" – 6 years, 10 months ago
Thats Jim’s call as its his property and all I am doing is some testing. I would believe that he will want it quite and not shown ( I believe these are the prototypes we are flying) until its time… Read more»
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Conway Stevens replied to the topic "L3 Project Construction Tips" – 6 years, 10 months ago
Thats Jim’s call as its his property and all I am doing is some testing. I would believe that he will want it quite and not shown ( I believe these are the prototypes we are flying) until its time… Read more»
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Bruce R. Schaefer replied to the topic "L3 Project Construction Tips" – 6 years, 10 months ago
But quite very well what I believe at the moment is a far bit better and usable by most all flyer’s.
Okay, I’M interested! Will you and he be able to show it, other than the flight?
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Conway Stevens replied to the topic "L3 Project Construction Tips" – 6 years, 10 months ago
Beings that I have an agreement with Jim Amos to be “Basically” under NDA with the documents and info he has shared. I have seen/have the documents and info as well as know what the new products are about and… Read more»
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Bruce R. Schaefer replied to the topic "L3 Project Construction Tips" – 6 years, 10 months ago
Wish my RRC2X hadn’t gone belly up.Let me clarify this. It went belly-up because I blew the booster up beneath it. I prefer MWC products over any other. Jim Amos was asking if anyone wanted to test his new electronics… Read more»
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Chris LaPanse replied to the topic "L3 Project Construction Tips" – 6 years, 10 months ago
Yeah – I have a 15 and a 50, so you all have me beat
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Bruce R. Schaefer replied to the topic "L3 Project Construction Tips" – 6 years, 10 months ago
Did you go with the rocket rage, like Conway has (I have a few too, though not in that size )?Those are great chutes…
Oh, yeah! But wait until you see Justin’s RR130! The ones we used were RR70’s.
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Chris LaPanse replied to the topic "L3 Project Construction Tips" – 6 years, 10 months ago
Did you go with the rocket rage, like Conway has (I have a few too, though not in that size 8) )?Those are great chutes…
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Bruce R. Schaefer replied to the topic "L3 Project Construction Tips" – 6 years, 10 months ago
Got an e-mail from James, and I can use the blacksky as the primary and WRC2 as the redundant. It was my mistake for the confusion. An early version of my documentation has the RRCX2 (still gonna buy another one… Read more»
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Bruce R. Schaefer replied to the topic "L3 Project Construction Tips" – 6 years, 10 months ago
Sounds like James believes or is expecting there to be 3 charges for each event. One fo 1 primary altimeter one for a secondary/back up altimeter and the WRC as a “Oh Crap button” just in case. I might be… Read more»
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Conway Stevens replied to the topic "L3 Project Construction Tips" – 6 years, 10 months ago
I may be wrong but judging by James comments above he may think you are doing something different.>JamesR>PostPosted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 7:36 am Post subject:>are you using only 2 charges and a match for each and then another mach… Read more»
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Bruce R. Schaefer replied to the topic "L3 Project Construction Tips" – 6 years, 10 months ago
Exaample would be like what I did. I had a RRC2X and it had 1 match per event and one charge per event. Then I had an ARTS and it had 1 match per event and one charge per event…. Read more»
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Conway Stevens replied to the topic "L3 Project Construction Tips" – 6 years, 10 months ago
Bruce how many altimeters are you using for deployment. (NOT including the WRC) then how many e matches per each event from those altimeters? as well as How many charges per those events on those altimeters. (again not including the… Read more»
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