Brad Morse

Anyone happen to have a small section of 5″ (or even a 5.5″) G-10 fiberglass tube laying around… oh, about 6″ high? Need to make a better hatch… hate it when this happens… Bruce, that is an oddball size… but…   Read more»

You are right on the button there, Bruce – the rocket has a bit of a mind of its own on gameday. Incidentally, I did not know that about the Loki darts (4 fins, etc.)I had an amazing amount of…   Read more»

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»

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»

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»

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»

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»

Bill Heath and I are also in the design stage for a boosted dart. Warren, when will you guys be ready? I don’t think we will be in the air much b4 July or August. Elvis Jr. is building the…   Read more»

Just curious about you comment about the mass of a large booster affecting the seperation. Wouldn’t it be more of a question of drag? Isn’t point of separation is when the force of drag on the booster is greater than…   Read more»

Hi I am looking for 38mm and 76mm conical nose cones to borrow. I am looking to make some molds of 38mm and 76mm conical nose cones in a 5 to 1 ratio or longer. They can be plastic or…   Read more»

I personally started flying Estes rockets when I was maybe 6 or 8 years old. My older brother and I were given an Estes Mars Lander as a gift. In retrospect, I’m dumbfounded that we were able to cobble it…   Read more»

Between this and John beating me, I REALLY want to fly again! Hey, it is about time 😉 Please make that cone available to Breck / Batman if he wants it? When you guys are done, go ahead and send…   Read more»

You may be right on the tracking thing — though that rule was clearly in place when a dozen or more flyers handed in their ante. Interesting. Next question, then — if it rolls over, is it only open to…   Read more»

Well, I left a wee bit early on Saturday but it looked like there was only a single SSS attempt? (unfortunately, it was unsuccessful). Wow… there is a proverbial bucket o’ dollars if someone pooches up a flight that counts.Probably…   Read more»

Yep, Skuba usually has a basket of ’em. He was out of the 7 second delay last weekend, but had the other delays…

It dawns on me that there were NO SSSS or SSS blasts this weekend? how bizarre… what a perfect day! There may be a fireban next month, it was sure getting crunchy out there.As I understand it, we haven’t had…   Read more»

Regarding the 2/3 launch — I’ll visit the Atlas site this weekend, but I can tell you that we’ve had very little melting up north and the last time I was out there, the cacti were not a problem (because…   Read more»

What an utterly gorgeous rocket!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope you aren’t going to paint that thing? Beautiful!!!On a totally different note, PML got into the kick of naming some rockets after the moons of Uranus (Miranda and Ariel). Almost all the celestial…   Read more»

If we do this contest, I’ll enter SkyScraper, and 18,000′.Regarding altimeter repeatability… I recently threw all of mine in a chamber. I had 4 PerfectFlites and 2 MW. I was stunned at how close they all came out. I expected…   Read more»

I fly the PerfectFlite MAWD quite often, and yes — it was in a conical nosecone in a rocket that coresampled, and the altimeter is fine. Incredible. I also like the PerfectFlite HA45 (Hi-altitude, 45K). It works great for regular…   Read more»