Chris LaPanse

That would be interesting if you could find it. I certainly am not that well-versed on interference drag, and I'd love to know more about it.

Pad. It took everyone by surprise though, since it did not occur immediately following a launch - it was a couple minutes after one. It must have been smoldering slightly for a while until the wind fa...

Warren: I'd be curious to see a reference for that (the interference drag). Everything I know about interference drag (which is admittedly not much, but it at least includes the basic mechanism) and b...

Yep. Not a large one, fortunately, due in part to luck and in part to the incredibly fast response from everyone when the cry of "FIRE" went out. It was probably 10 by 40 or 50 feet before we got it o...

I'll do some button pushing. I don't have a tow-capable vehicle though, so I can't help with the trailer.

I was just looking at weather.com, and for the first time in quite a while, the rainfall for this month in Nunn is substantially above average 😀 (Mile high mayhem, here we come...)

I have tried the white - I flew an I242 in my Nike, and it was a great boost. The video looks fine to me by the way - nice flight. I still need to race you sometime (assuming mine survives the 2045) 🙂

A 75mm large M has a decent shot at >35k. I'd definitely sim it with RASaero and see what it says.

I intentionally made mine pretty simple, so it's just motor deploy. I didn't want to have a full electronic deploy or anything. If I were going to make it electronic deploy though, I'd put the E-bay a...

Very, very cool. Is this flyable at NCR, or do you need somewhere like LDRS this year or Black Rock?

Oh, and I'm up for a 4 inch Smoke drag race anytime 😀

SCORE isn't too bad - it's a bit over 2 hours.

The general trends should hold, though you're right that the pressures used were sea level standard. I would think the same idea would be fine for our site though, since that's only a pressure differe...

Since this is an interesting problem, and I had a bit of free time, I ran some rough CFD sims on a Nike (this one is 1/4 scale, but the general trends should be valid for any of them that are in that ...

Personally, I wouldn't. It would make it very challenging to get the sleeve on after soaking the tube in resin. What I would do is use a fairly thin, slow-cure epoxy, and really work it into the weave...