Warren B. Musselman

NCR is lucky to have one of the top 10 launch sites in the US. Certainly there are 3 or 4, maybe 5 clubs with higher waivers than our Pawnee North Site – Kloudbusters in Kansas, the Amarillo boys, Arizona…   Read more»

You need two TAPs and once again, I highly recommend you take your time and get some building and flight experience on a variety of L2 level rockets before trying for you L3. Art Hoag, James Russell, Conway Stevens, Alan…   Read more»

Congrats Conway – now hopefully you will have some Loki stock for Mile Hi Mayhem.Warren

Case and the outer split ring. I don’t need the nozzle or internal snap rings. VERY much appreciated Conway.Warren

I’d be interested in borrowing the 98/11000 case for a couple weeks to check fit, both diameter and length. Will return it by the Feb launch or direct to your home before then if desired.Warren

2 Watts is an enormous amount of power for HPR telemetry and direction finding. Most commercial rockets use 5W or less for ranges up to 70 miles line of site. Once you get above 250mW, you get into serious issues…   Read more»

Congrats to the folks that cert’d today. While I wanted to fly, I just didn’t feel like trudging across the rapidly melting snow drifts. Instead, I worked on my L3 project that finally found it’s name today. You’ll figure it…   Read more»

I’m sorry I haven’t made it – 2 years in a row now. I think this annual dinner thing is a great idea and I wish I’d made a point to come. Alas, the wife made plans for both of…   Read more»

Oh well. One Month later Im a lot smarterThat’s the way it goes in this hobby. Theory will only get you so far – actual practice is necessary to determine what actually works. I learned the hard way and so…   Read more»

Well the original plan was to fly it in my L3 project at Mayhem, but it’s probably going to be on the backburner a few more months past that. I don’t want it to get in the way of my…   Read more»

What I’ve been sorta planning on doing is using a gumstix with 3 serial ports. One port goes to my GPS chip, another to the RF wireless chip and the third to either an as-yet undesigned data acquisition and sensor…   Read more»

I’m in touch with a buddy of Doug’s and moving forward. Other folks, particularly math-involved programmers or sensor involved hardware guys are welcome to step up to the plate and will be much appreciated.Warren

Don’t feel bad guys, I have a 4″ MD project I just started that is designed around the M795 CTI motor that simms over 33K and another one designed around the N1100 that simms to nearly 46K. The crux will…   Read more»

What Ed said…Warren

You burned an H180 motor indoors?!!! My my… better that it was your garage than mine. Somewhere out on the web is a video of a guy doing a static test IN HIS GARAGE. Guess his test stand wasn’t so…   Read more»

We had a call-in of 30K arranged for MHM and Oktoberfest in 2006, but it didn’t get granted for 2007. We’re working on something similar this year, but don’t have any idea if it will happen. Joe is working on…   Read more»

This tower will be easy then. I just need to fabricate a triangle of square thin wall tubing to hold the top end rigid and perhaps add some eye bolts there for guy lines and it’s ready to use. Probably…   Read more»

Sorry Conway – you said tower and I immediately thought large rocket needing a rail.The bicycle tower and Bob Messner’s tower aren’t big enough to handle a 4″ bird even though they’d probably adjust that large. At 4′ total guide…   Read more»

The largest tower we have is the Swing Set which sports a 16′ rail. Art launched the Event Horizon from it which had a flight weight of over 300#. I’m not sure what the rail on it is but it’s…   Read more»

Yes, I do have the case for it. I’m not sure exactly where, but I’ll dig for it before the annual meeting on Saturday.Warren