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RE: Smash Rocketry New Group Project - The Proton M Last I checked we had some club members who are more than 6" taller than I am and considerably more muscular. I won't comment on waist size. |
In forum Archives 2012 |
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RE: Next Rocket Ah, the EZI-65... I cratered at least 2 of them in my quest for L2 and one other besides. Great rocket...not much luck though for me with them. |
In forum Archives 2012 |
14 years ago |
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RE: Smash Rocketry New Group Project - The Proton M With some of the folks in our club, I'd add some XXL and XXXL's to the size selection. I'm 6' and at my heaviest was 215 and it took an XL or an XXL to fit me after washing. Some of our folks make me ... |
In forum Archives 2012 |
14 years ago |
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RE: Next Rocket Take your time, Keep It Simple, don't rush yourself or get "Go Fever". I flew my L1 first try... but it took me 5 tries to L2 because of: A) I was way psyched and I most definitely had Go Fever, B) I... |
In forum Archives 2012 |
14 years ago |
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RE: Next Rocket Yeah, John has always been a single altimeter guy. Shocked me when he TAPped my L3. Back in the day you could do your L3 with a single altimeter, but no more. Redundancy is a requirement now. When we ... |
In forum Archives 2012 |
14 years ago |
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RE: Smash Rocketry New Group Project - The Proton M Doug uses 1515 rail, at least the last time I helped set up his pad. |
In forum Archives 2012 |
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RE: Smash Rocketry New Group Project - The Proton M If you're using a 1515 rail, I still have several sets of 1515 buttons turned from 304L Stainless Steel. I'd be glad to donate them. |
In forum Archives 2012 |
14 years ago |
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RE: Smash Rocketry New Group Project - The Proton M Man, I'm going to have to come down to one of the build sessions just to see this thing. I'm waiting with bated breath to see it fly. |
In forum Archives 2012 |
14 years ago |
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RE: Commercial Motors We've definitely had TAPS leave because other hobbies were less expensive. Think Al McBride and his sudden interest in Formula 1 race cars... (far from cheap). |
In forum Archive - News & Events |
14 years ago |
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RE: Commercial Motors A commercial P from CTI... I wonder if it is based on the Tomahawk booster that they sell the US Navy to kick the cruise missiles out of the launch cells. At one point Dr. J got me the spec sheet on i... |
In forum Archive - News & Events |
14 years ago |
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RE: Battery Chargers for Li-Poly batteries; Raven & Telmetru Yeah, once you have your L3, you don't need anyone to check out your bird other than the RSO. That is not to say you should do that. I had built several L3 and larger birds prior to building my L3, so... |
In forum Electronics |
14 years ago |
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RE: Vacuum pressure Doug is right, the main difference would be the amount of epoxy forced out of the fabric into the breather material or sucked into the epoxy trap if you use one. Lower vacuum pressure reduces the comp... |
In forum Composite Construction Help |
14 years ago |
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RE: Smash Rocketry New Group Project - The Proton M On the Delta II project, we had underfigured the required nosewieght and at the pad on launch day we spent substantial time with Ed Wranowsky tearing down the nose to access the weight compartment thr... |
In forum Archives 2012 |
14 years ago |
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RE: Smash Rocketry New Group Project - The Proton M I LOVE it... and can't wait to see it fly. Three actual flying stages with separate motors and staging systems? |
In forum Archives 2012 |
14 years ago |
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RE: Eye nuts versus eye bolts I use both forged eyebolts and stainless steel eyenuts (from a sail boat supply place) - what I use depends on the application. My more recent projects have all used eyenuts to be honest. I now prefer... |
In forum Archives 2012 |
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