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Well, that’s what we were talking about. 🙂 Best of luck, Conway, with your L3. If you need another ground crew member, just let me know. I’ll be turning to you for tips within a year’s time. I’m just going…   Read more»

So Gang How about what everyone is pushing to get done and fly for Octoberfest!!! ( I mean it is the topic .LOL) I really really want to hear what you all want to do for this event. I just…   Read more»

Oh, yeah! 😀

Bruce, I had the chance to fly my Thunderbolt over the weekend at Hellfire. I launched it with a Pro38 I285. It was the 2nd flight Sat. morning. It jumped from the pad, at about 2 seconds it went mach,…   Read more»

Actually, a clipped delta is fine, with elliptical fins only performing ~1% better. In a contest, 1% can mean a lot. It’s odd that they would, since the worst fin shape is the double swept delta, like the Event Horizon,…   Read more»

Bruce,Hmmm. I recall a design from Estes that was BT-50 based, elliptical fins, and used an abrupt tailcone, sprint maybe? Claimed 1600′ on a C6. I built a couple. But never outperformed a BT20 based rocket of the same length….   Read more»

Tim,I’m sure I’m not the only one thinking this, but if one cut the double-swept delta fincan fins into elliptical fins, and except for the disturbance in the laminar airflow around the minimum diameter airframe that the fincan adds, which…   Read more»

Well, it started at MHM. We were sitting aroud in the wind, talking about having a small, fast, and very sturdy rocket that you could fly over and over again on H and I motors. So we took a 38…   Read more»

Rocky Mountain Thunderbolt, eh? When do we get to see details about this new GL kit?

Under the flights of intrest heading, Bruce S and Dave W and I are drag racing 3 of the new Rocky Mountain Thunderbolts from Giant Leap. These kits are glass bodied 38MM screamers. We are racing on J350’s. The…   Read more»

Warren,I’m with doug–kiss, enough room for 1 or 2 pics, none of these 40 photo vanity publications of mundane stuff like how I built some L3 kit starting with a picture of the box sitting on their door step–I mean…   Read more»

Warren,I personally like the idea of a projects page but I’m not in favor of the kind the LDRS pages are based on. Maybe just a page with a single photo and description.Doug

I could readily set up a projects area for folks…sort of mini-web pages for projects, though I can’t promise it would be ready before Septemberish given my travel schedule.Warren

What did you have in mind JW about a projects page? Curious as i think may be a good idea. It would help with knowing what all is in the works for that date.

I will also be attending the TCO Launch on July 22nd. I am in the process of finishing my new Hawk Mountain Raptor. I plan to fly it on an I200 at Hartsell. Should do well over mach 1 on…   Read more»

I’ll be there as well. In fact, I’ll be towing the launch equipment to the site and helping to set things up. Hope to see alot of flyers there.kp

I wonder if it might not make sense to have an “Oktoberfest projects” page? I won’t be there at least not early Saturday. I may be able to fly a little something on Friday, weather and burn bans permitting?…   Read more»

Guys,I just bought the Boostervision Camera with flat patch antenna off of the ROL auction for $90, the package lists at $120-$130. In my limited testing the images are nice, I will be testing its range and shakiness factor when…   Read more»

I’ve been fiddling around with a hybrid device by Radiotronix. The Wi.232FHSS-250 is 250mW, up to 7 miles line of site, 2400-152K baud RS232 wire replacement. The modules are $40-$60 ea. depending on the packaging version. They use the 900-916…   Read more»

Guys,I just bought the Boostervision Camera with flat patch antenna off of the ROL auction for $90, the package lists at $120-$130. In my limited testing the images are nice, I will be testing its range and shakiness factor when…   Read more»