Brad Morse

I’ll have mine there for some of you to look over for me. But it won’t be painted and ready to go, so no flight. I still haven’t figured out a good way to do the electronics.PAINT??? we don’t need…   Read more»

This has been a dead thread of late. Any SSSS takers this weekend? As noted earlier, I’m flying on Friday or Saturday. I’ll fly my J570 rocket for my SSSS, as I don’t have time to put together an optimized…   Read more»

Doug, I’ll fly one of those days… Friday if it is calm and moderately warm (and if I can get the day off) otherwise I’ll do my attempt on Saturday.JW

Tim, I think each line has its own merit, and I believe you’d find a healthy appetite for Loki motors. The K350 is one of the great motors out there today; AMW has nothing in the long-burn category, and RR…   Read more»

Speaking for myself, I have often found the prescribed hole sizes to be too small — largely because I tend to stuff wires back through instead of using switches.Many, many of the rockets I have flown have had static ports…   Read more»

I’m a bit of a heretic in this department. Old timers will smile and remember my many iterations of “BoB”, which was a Vaughn Brothers kit. “BoB” had perhaps 12-14 calibers of stabilit. BoB always flew bullet straight.I would guess…   Read more»

For my part,, I think I’ve only used drogue chutes on perhaps 3 of my boosts (ever). I use streamers a lot, and I also just break the rocket and go w/o a chute or a streamer quite often. The…   Read more»

Maybe “INCOMING!!!!!!!!!” or something similar. Very nice, Shredder!JW

Hi Mike-If you are not going to fly hybrids, this hole is not needed…JW

‘Twas miserable indeed. I didn’t plan to fly anything, but did want to go hang with the cool kids for a bit. Conditions were wretched.This group has always had a nice launch in December OR January OR February. Now we…   Read more»

For my part, I’d say that I have used pistons in 99% of my rockets. I’ve never had an issue. Basically, there is nothing that I’m worried about it “dropping down on to” in the first place. I’ve used pistons…   Read more»

I was told just today that the old website for Daveyfires said they had a shelf life of “one year”. Now that I think about it, my SSS had a Daveyfire that was dead as a hammer. I’d think those…   Read more»

Excellent! BTW, I did not get Doug’s PM (via this site). Is that feature working?JW

Outstanding, Doug – I’m at john.wilke(at)comcast.net Pardon my typing gymnastics there, I’m trying to avoid the spambots out there…

One question I have for John W is whether Gambit sported a conical nose? :John, Gambit had an Estes body tube. I can’t recall the size, it is whatever is just a sniff bigger than PML 29mm. I remember because…   Read more»

I will say this: the math (not just in rocksim) I have no doubt though that both the F and G records could be taken with the F10 and G25, though, assuming a near perfect vertical boost..I don’t have my…   Read more»

I don’t want this to come out wrong and I don’t want this to come out smarmy (that was a disclaimer) but simulating something and flying it are two totally different animals. The TRA “F” record hasn’t stood for as…   Read more»

The J impulse TRA record is just nuts. I passed the old record a year ago, but not by 2%. By the time I had another crack at it, the record went from ~16,700′ to almost 20,000′. On a perfect…   Read more»

I’m genuinely delighted to hear about the renewed enthusiasm with altitude.Oddly enough, I have not flown an A, B, C, or D motor in perhaps 15 years. On top of that, I have never once flown an E. Given my…   Read more»

Is a “boosted dart” an unpowered payload section that recovers separately from the booster? I checked out the Tripoli rules and boosted darts aren’t disallowed from single-motor records, though they are disallowed from the staged records. I also found an…   Read more»