Warren B. Musselman

I know it’s down on paper, but just a reminder that I’m LCO from 8 until noon on Saturday and will gladly go to 2PM if no one has signed up. I’ll also do Friday AM LCO duty.Warren

Exactly Adrian. Best explanation I’ve heard is the surgical tubing keeps the burning and unburned BP in contact longer allowing for more complete combustion.Warren

I’m not a pyrodex user, nor likely to be. I’ll probably go to CO2-based systems for serious altitude shots if I head that way.The idea of the surgical tubing is to contain the burning BP until it burns completely in…   Read more»

I’ve switched over completely to the gum rubber hose method for charges. I have been using wire ties, but I like Doug Gerard’s idea of hose clamps even better. I haven’t flow anything else in 3 years now.Warren

This is great – a trip to Coalwood. Can I assume Homer will be there?W

The only unfortunate part of night launching for us is that it is limited to G motors and below. I, for one, would love to see a night HPR launch – preferably with Skidmarks. It should be possible for a…   Read more»

Sorry Doug. Biggest problem we have with changing the photo is for folks to send us photos to put up. I have some candidates, but with the upgrade to the latest PHPNuke, I’ve been holding off. I’ll make the change…   Read more»

I’ve had a piston jam twice. Once in a filthy quantum tube airframe and another time by greatly overpowering the ejection charge in an all-composite bird. (about x5 bigger than it needed to be.). Otherwise, I’m with John – I…   Read more»

I have the nosecone and most of a design for BALLS 2010. Just need the airframe, fins, e-bay and electronics, chute and such… John, look in your junkbox. An N1100 is in our future.Warren

Ed, I need your new email address. I vaguely remember you saying something about this, but at the time my main computer (and almost all the admin passwords) was still in a box and I couldn’t do anything about it….   Read more»

Of course I’ll be thereW

Of course I’ll be there Ed.Warren

This project has been on the bench for 3 or 4 years now and multiple TAPs have had their eyes on it over that time. Just never got around to finishing it for flight and actually scheduling the cert flight…   Read more»

Barring any serious problems, I plan on flying my L3 cert on Friday afternoon. Details are: M1419W motor, 5″ diam., 109″ tall, about 35#.John is one of my TAPS, and although I never got full commitment from a second TAP,…   Read more»

Congratulations!!!! 37K+ is impressive.Warren

What little I know I learned from Mick Kelly on the Composite Rocketry group and from John Coker’s website. In the end, the answer comes down to NEVER use a non-metallic mandrel – you’ll never be able to get enough…   Read more»

What is the mandrel made out of? Suggest dry ice packing the tube if it is metallic. Liquid Nitrogen has been used by others.Warren

If you fly A thru G, you don’t need to belong to Tripoli or NAR to fly with NCR. I can’t speak for Tripoli Colorado though – it depends on their bylaws so you’d better check their website.As all events…   Read more»

I have the non-smoke closure for the 75-6000 motor and could be persuaded.Warren

Yeah… the CTI 29mm case set is a great deal and you can fly more motors than in any other brand. The other really nice thing about Cesaroni motors is that they basically light first time everytime if you get…   Read more»