Chris LaPanse

I’d also be glad to help if I can, and if you ever need anything that I have, you can borrow it.I can’t claim to be anywhere close to as much of a resource as Art, but I can do…   Read more»

I’d go for the balsa in this case. Easy to shape, and phenomenal compression strength (end grain). Honeycomb might be a pain unless it is foam filled or used with prepreg.Should be an incredible project – I can’t wait to…   Read more»

Heh.Now that you mention it John, I should do that… In all honesty, there are a lot of things I want to do, some of which might scare some people…We’ll see how some stuff works out…   Read more»

Agreed about the rail buttons.They will provide a nice, stable platform for it and prevent any rod whip.It would definitely scream on a nice H motor – H268 perhaps 😯

Well, if you were going to do a tower launch, you would need something to guide all 4. However, I would just go with a launch lug, as a canadian arrow/v2 design is hardly an optimized MD screamer, and will…   Read more»

I thought it was around 5300…It’s in that area though…EDIT: Google earth says 5446 at the windmill…

Welcome :)Hope to see you at a launch soon. Will you be there next month?

Well, seeing as I’ll be walking the grassland a lot this weekend looking for my SSS, I’ll keep an eye out for it.

That should get up and MOVE in full throttle. I hope you have tracking 😀

Now THAT should be a nice flight :DWhat kind of a load are you talking about here? Fast? Slow? Moonburner? I vote for a 15 second moonburner, personally

Hmm – the I600 has some potential.Then again, so does the Loki I110…There is also news of a new J825R for the 38/1080 case coming out soon – perhaps use that for a little more extreme flight? 😯 8)

That was kind of the idea behind suggesting it actually – make it a bit more extreme, and also perhaps spur someone into making a new J altitude record :)The J350 is definitely already difficult, though, no question…

That could end up interesting as well, although that would probably give an advantage to the multi-staged stuff which involves MUCH more complexity and effort…I think that next year, the contest of choice for me will be the SSSS. More…   Read more»

I would love to see the SSSS again as well, although perhaps spice it up next year and make the J570 the motor of choice?If the SSS is repeated without tracking, I may just enter the SSSS instead. I don’t…   Read more»

Well, I can’t speak for anyone else, but I would have used tracking in a heartbeat. Looking at some data, I could have probably fit a tracker into my airframe relatively easily (perhaps a slight extension would be needed, but…   Read more»

Well, I would prefer to have tracking allowed. My dad and I searched for my rocket for more than 6 hours total, and honestly, having a tracker would eliminate much of the luck, making it much more of a contest…   Read more»

So you never found yours either…Do you know what happened to Ed’s?I had to leave just before his flew…

Heh…Well, every motor case known to man that is 38mm and down other than CTI…As for those cases, I love my 1 grain 29. The F37 is an amazing motor ;)If you need a case, just ask me, and I…   Read more»

True As for weight, after looking at the design of that rocket, you’d probably be fine as is – no noseweight needed (especially with the CF).

I could make some (pure) CF plate up for you if you wanted – it’s pretty easy, and the cost would run about ~$20-$25 for enough roughly .062″ thick plate for that rocket (more than adequate for almost anything L1)….   Read more»