Warren B. Musselman

As I recall, you were standing right there with me when my first SSS bird fired on the pad not once, not twice, but three times. It had a single 1/8" port for a Perfectflight MAWD. A breeze across the...

I'd do 3 equi-spaced 1/16" diameter holes. Still well under the upper end specified by Missileworks and definitely big enough to do the job in a 3" bird with that small a volume. W

Oh yeah, it's also just as important that you dont have TOO much port area. Too much or too little can confuse the altimeter. Warren

Good deal - can't say I've ever seen that many, but that'll certainly do the job.

That's an interesting thought Scott. My very first dual deploy bird had only a single altitude bleed hole into the avbay and it fired its charge on the pad when a gust of wind hit. Since then I've gen...

Finished the Thrust Ring today and started machining the bulkheads, mainly just facing the plates and drilling the center-hole for the threaded rod that holds the e-bay together. Here's some pics. Not...

I'm very sorry for your unexpected malfunction. I'd also like to know who's altimeter and which model caused the problem. Doesn't look too bad, slice off a couple inches and have at it again. Better l...

Agreed. So far, I'm cool with what you're talking about. W

Some good questions Dale, most of which were not considered. Let's answer.1 - No boosted darts - I have a separate boosted dart contest in mind.2 - I think it should be - certifiable condition so to s...

Did I mention my comments were tongue in cheek? W

Hey this is the US - if we want to be primitive and be the only country on the planet that uses old Imperial measurements like Miles, Gallons, Quarts, we can damn well do it. After all, we've got the ...

This coming from a veteran of Robot Wars and BattleBots... I can see it now, Rocket Rage or Altitude Wars or something... Actually a pretty funny image - rockets flying to extreme altitude and deployi...

Ah, like Cafe Press. W

Except for the cost of creating the different logos and having to stock the different shirts or stickers or coffee cups or whatever. Warren

I was on both the Extreme Rocketry and Missileworks sites this morning and they were both working fine. Aerotech is working fine too. Possible that there was a DNS problem for some ISP's though. I'm t...