Brad Morse

For my part, I think groups of two or three would probably encourage some more elaborate efforts and entice more folks into the contest at the same time. I’m working on several joint projects right now… if they were not…   Read more»

For my part, I’d like to suggest (grovel, ask, beg, etc.) that teams be allowed for the upscale contest. I’m to the point in my rocketry life where I really enjoy doing team or group projects. While I think it…   Read more»

Be honest – you’d rather found out now, before you spent months on it Here are four kits that I have never seen upscaled – and you’d get HUGE points for degree of difficulty on the latter three:a.) X-Ray (clear…   Read more»

I have not been able to find a giant Red Max so Dibs…

doh! http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mbear/redmax.html

Decals are readily available… try some folks at http://www.rocketshoppe.com/bar_links.htmTango Papa decals pretty much have it all http://www.tangopapadecals.com/decals.htm

You could do a “Scissor Winged Transport” – which was cool (except they always crashed).The hands-down best upscale I have ever seen is Doug G’s “Mars Snooper”. It was outrageously cool…..The “Trident” was cool. Ditto for the Estes “Goblin”.All you…   Read more»

If you can build – and successfully fly an Orbital Transport, no one will mind if it is a do-over I have seen really big Alphas, Big Berthas, some terrific Quarks, the Oribital Transport, Mars Landers… truth be told,…   Read more»

Were you thinking of the mighty “Orbital Transport”?http://www.dars.org/jimz/k-42.htmWhat a terrific kit… It has been upscaled to HPR a time or two. A friend of mine built a big one once, and he had the decals, etc. reproduced. It was awesome….This…   Read more»

I’m wearing my “I’d go ahead and try that if I were you…” T-shirt right now — Scout’s honor!The unnofficial club motto, of course, been recently updated to the more direct and somewhat demeaning “why dontcha just hitch up yer…   Read more»

Intriguing… I got to playing with some sims on really, really light rockets using the M1315 and I’m pretty sure I’m not capable of building something that would be quite light AND survive. It would be an energetic shred, though…   Read more»

Indeed, I concur with that. Keep in mind I put the Kilz on with a spray can, wet sand a lot of it away, and call it good 😯

For my part, I think much of my damage happened in the first two feet of my flight. The pix that Ray and Chris sent me showed a cooked fin as the rocket was leaving the tower. If you look…   Read more»

I think some of the damage I had was due to the motor’s heat, which is no little thing on a minimum diameter rocket. There just isn’t anywhere for the heat to go but right to the surface. That said,…   Read more»

How fast did your sim say that your M shot went?Adrian, as you know, Rocksim doesn’t simulate VK cones very well. My best guess on velocity on that boost was between Mach 2.0 and 2.3. What little primer I had…   Read more»

Altitude records are great fun, but how about speed?Any thoughts?MarkJ570s at twenty paces :DI think it would be fun to do, but as Adrian says – a bit hard to quantify. Drag races are almost never lit at the same…   Read more»

I used AeroPoxy on my M1450 boost. I used convolute wound glass, so all I had to do was the tip-2-tip stuff. I did 5 layers of that. A quart (of mixed product?) should go quite a long way. The…   Read more»

Thanks, Warren. It seems odd that BOTH of my computers would succumb to this? I’d toss my cookies (so to speak) 8)

I’ve had great luck with them, I really like the fact that I can use 10.5v batteries with them and I like the dip switches. Never a problem with mine, and I have pushed one of them to 70+ gees…   Read more»

OK, more questions from a non-engineer 😯 the blue line seems to be essentially peaking at just below 25K, with some bigger spikes. The 25,724′ would seem to be such a spike. Isn’t that an anomaly (“noise”?) and if you…   Read more»

Adrian, I’m curious why the velocity never got to ~0mph. I understand if there is a parabolic trajectory it may not ever stop completely, but as you saw it was a *very* straight boost… I’d have thought it nearly did…   Read more»