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Originally Posted by Ez2cDave
A little data on the A.S.P. . . .
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Ah--thank you for posting all of those! I'd never seen that...cardstock? red-and-black "roulette round" ASP (I've seen that round, but not that cardstock model). Being made for 13 mm motors, I presume the rolled body tube is BT-5 size (I used to have a mold master for a BT-5 size 5:1 tangent ogive, from which I cast solid polyurethane resin [with "investment cast" screw eyes] nose cones, for my Nova Hobbies ASP kit
http://www.rocketreviews.com/nova-h...-mike-goss.html [I never sold kits with those, because I had so many balsa 5:1 ogive nose cones]). Today, one of the 3D printing folks could make such 5:1 BT-5 ogives. Also:
Those "super-caliber cone" ASP rounds look like the pictures in Dr. Richard Morrow's book, "Small Sounding Rockets" (which--the last I'd heard--he was working on reprinting, perhaps via POD [Print On Demand] publishing [here
http://www.google.com/search?ei=9UK...0.VEJK4p7 cMxM is his book]). He also covered a two-stage sounding rocket that used that mushroom cloud sample-collecting nose cone, called the ASCAMP (see:
http://www.google.com/search?source...160.Xuu7eh_FuMw ), and:
The ASCAMP used the delta-finned ASP as its first stage. The SCAMP second stage, which had Aerobee 350-like fins (although much smaller) and the "super-caliber cone," used the same "Baby Sergeant" rocket motor as that used for the Jupiter-C/Juno I and Juno II high-speed solid propellant upper stages.