Warren B. Musselman

I’m thinking about it seriously. I’m planning my L3 for MHM… if I succeed and the bird survives the flight, I’d like to fly it on an EX N motor at BALLS perhaps. I don’t want to stay at Bruno’s…   Read more»

That is only marginally better than “Here, hold my beer and watch this”.W

We could have him tap out his GPS position continuously using morse code throughout the flight. W

Let’s just say the chute rig would have to be so far beyond bombproof it wouldn’t be funny. Man-rated is a helluva lot harder to do than Level 3…Warren

Try 1524/125000Warren

Now lets see… how many wraps of 6oz glass will we need and how many O motors…?Warren

Quite right Conway – I was just remembering the Delta II project I was involved in and the 9 CTI 38mm cases we had to scrounge for all the H motors and forgot that the safety code prohibits what we…   Read more»

Cesaroni 38mm motors can be used the way you describe with a PVC or other spacer. With an AMW or AT case, not a chance. Personally, I own the AMW 54/2550 case which translates into quite a few K’s and…   Read more»

Jeremiah is MrTidy these days, not MrClean. I just had lunch with him today talking about the upgrades we’re doing to this website. Glad to see he dragged someone else into the hobby. Welcome and hope to see you at…   Read more»

Yes John, I have one. Planning on flying on it Friday or Saturday at MHM, but you’re certainly welcome to it otherwise.Warren

From the perspective of the executive committee, it didn’t even get discussed at the last meeting. IF Tim brings one to the launch as he’s offered and people fly off it and like it, we’ll buy it.Warren

I think we should look at it before we go making any suppositions about how rigid the uprights are. Rings are for towers that aren’t built well enough to maintain their spacing from bottom to top. The Bicycle towers definitely…   Read more»

Personally, if I were to drop my own money on a tower, I’d get that tower launcher you and I are always drooling over (www.towerlauncher.com) and call it good. Hell, with that it’d be a very unlikely thing for me…   Read more»

Tim, what would be the issue with the club buying it from GLR? By all means bring it out so we can check it out. If it fits our needs and everyone says great, we’d probably prefer the club own…   Read more»

That’s an awesome option. It’s far better than what we have now being 7′ long and able to handle 4″ birds and a far cheaper option than buying the $1800 tower that John and I keep drooling over (that’s 8’…   Read more»

I agree on the 1010 rail as uprights John. I have a design I’ve been fiddling with using rail for the uprights and braces with a machined stainless blast plate and legs that stake down to the ground. You could…   Read more»

Personally I’m a big fan of towers like John. Historically, I’ve built all my altitude birds and even a few non-altitude birds to fly out of towers because I just hate sticking a launch lug or rail buttons out there…   Read more»

A decent absolute pressure gauge and relief valve on your vacuum pump can adjust things to a pretty fine degree if you’ve got the right relief valve. You can easily, as I’m sure you know, compute the pressure altitude from…   Read more»

My vacuum pump pulls to 25″ Hg… don’t know what that corresponds to altitude-wise or in millibars or whatever, but it sure can pull v-bagging down tight on a lay-up.Warren

Indeed, the micron is 1 millionth of a meter and was originally called the micrometer. (See millimeter, centimeter, decimeter, etc. etc.)However, I think it popular culture making it a millionth of a moron at least is a helluva lot funnier….   Read more»