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RE: Annual meeting Jan 7? The meeting date is as Joe says. My bad for not correcting it months ago. As I said at the last annual meeting, we NEED a new webmaster to manage the website. |
In forum Construction Help |
14 years ago |
RE: Annual meeting Jan 7? Just a reminder that my wife will NOT be catering the annual meeting this year. We felt after 4 years that it was time for someone else to take on the task. On a secondary note, I will be selling off... |
In forum Construction Help |
14 years ago |
RE: Working my way up to L2 and dual-deploy Rich, I've built birds that weigh over 20# and have NO drogue. They just break apart at the ebay joint and deploy a long shock cord and fall from apogee without any drogue whatsoever. You'll find guys... |
In forum Construction Help |
14 years ago |
RE: November Launch BEAR, the concrete pad at the Atlas site was part of the LOX cooling system and is called a spray pad. They had a recirculating evaporative chilled water system the sprayed water over the pad which th... |
In forum Archive - News & Events |
14 years ago |
RE: Ejection Charge Re-Visited With redundant charges and altimeters, you can be sure that they will NOT fire simultaneously - especially if you use different altimeter brand/models (smart idea by the way). As I said, I use a calcu... |
In forum Construction Help |
14 years ago |
RE: Working my way up to L2 and dual-deploy Shredder, just about every dual deploy L2 and L3 bird I've ever seen deploys apogee out of the middle of the airframe and main out the nose. There are a variety of reasons for this: 1- When you break ... |
In forum Construction Help |
14 years ago |
RE: Ejection Charge Re-Visited I use the Art Hoag Method - I use the calculator to determine how much powder needed and then double it - at least. ((This used to be known as the Wilke method)) |
In forum Construction Help |
14 years ago |
RE: An N5800-N5800 2-stage rocket could get to space (330kft) way geeky set of posts... way awesome motor. What I'd like to see is something like a 4" version of the motor Dr. J is building for us.... bet it would beat 330K. W |
In forum AP Motor Discussion - Certified |
14 years ago |
RE: Aeropoxy Structural Adhesive. I have a 4" fin can/booster that survived impact from 8000'+ - built with West Systems. It has flown since multiple times with a new forward airframe and nose. |
In forum Construction Help |
14 years ago |
RE: Wow!!!!!!!!!! Ken is close to right on.... but I can't say how close. Besides, it is something so different from your experience that just saying 99% L in an 54mm case doesn't even come close to the reality. Just ... |
In forum Archives 2011 |
14 years ago |
RE: Wow!!!!!!!!!! Believe it or not, I was just looking at UnLeashed the other day thinking it was time to do the strakes and start thinking about filling and wet sanding the whole thing. Hopefully, I'd be able to go t... |
In forum Archives 2011 |
14 years ago |
RE: WEATHER WATCH Yes you can join onsite - see Joe Hinton. You can also cert up to L2 via Joe or if you are cert'd via NAR, then those certs are reciprocal. Snow falling in Lyons, outside temp is 34 degrees. I'm going... |
In forum Archive - News & Events |
14 years ago |
RE: WEATHER WATCH Dave is most certainly correct. The rules were changed 2 years ago. You don't need to be certified, you just need to be a Tripoli member. Of course you can only fly to your certification level. non-ce... |
In forum Archive - News & Events |
14 years ago |
RE: WEATHER WATCH Not to be divisive, but NAR did everything they could to kill HPR (G & above) before they realized they had to get on board. NOTHING they have ever done since has done anything to advance HPR othe... |
In forum Archive - News & Events |
14 years ago |
RE: WEATHER WATCH Adrian, McGuckins in Boulder has #2, #4 and #6 nylon screws |
In forum Archive - News & Events |
14 years ago |