Warren B. Musselman

Mike, absolutely fantastic post. Thank you much. Very thorough and I'm interested in the buttons you've come up with. My original thought was to machine the buttons out of teflon, but bad experiences ...

Ed, Once again, I call dibs on Saturday morning LCO slot from 8AM to noon for MHM. I will also tow the trailer out to the launch site for MHM and take care of range setup on Thursday afternoon. I will...

Impressive Mike - very nice. You have my best wishes for a flawless flight and recovery. Warren

I have the issue Art and you're welcome to it. W

Don't feel bad - that rocket of mine that was out on the prairie for 16 months had 2 brand new altimeters in it. Hell, right now there is a bird out on the prairie from my 2006 SSS attempt with a Perf...

These are fully polished rail guides so I guess I don't see an issue. Besides, I'm one of the two equipment managers and the rails are, amongst other things, my responsibility and I see the kind of da...

Whaddya mean L3's only use 1/4-20's?. Two 10-24 stainless screws should be able to easily hold 300# before deformation. I used to have a table around here somewhere and the individual screw needs over...

Kevlar is a total pain in the ass. I have two pairs of supposed "Kevlar shears" I bought at Hobbytown sometime back and even they hack the hell out of it. A clean cut is essentially impossible. No man...

Not for the 1515 style buttons - the shaft diameter precludes it. I'm thinking of making some Unistrut buttons somewhere down the road and those would take a 1/4-20 flathead screw. I've also got a pro...

Since I've been playing with machine tools lately, I decided to make up some rail buttons for my L3 project. They were made on an NC lathe and so since I only need a couple sets, I have 10 sets availa...

I lost a bird - a stretched dual deploy PML Callisto, out at the North Site in early July 2004. Me, my wife, Joe Hinton, Bill Beggs and Bob Messner probably put in a total of 50 hours wandering around...

John, your booster and the spent casing that fell from 23K was maybe 4# or 5# if I recall correctly. My best estimate for weight for this booster is about 25# with the casing. Conways bird (whole bird...

Sorry to hear this Conway - hope everything works out on the health front. The business can wait, though it's fantastic that you've finally got you paper and can start storing propellant. Congratulati...

Sounds like we reached the same conclusions Conway. The way I built it up was I took the fin blanks and laid 4 layers of glass from the root out 1/8, 1/6, 1/5, 1/4 on each side and v-bagged that with ...

Through the wall. This is killer bombproof, mainly because I'm building for N motors and also because if the thing comes in on an apogee streamer without the main deploying, I'd rather be able to fly ...