05-15-2013, 08:15 AM
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Originally Posted by Vanel
Thanks Carl! Based on this, it appears that staging goes all the way back to the beginning.
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Thanks to Carl seconded! That raises a staging variation (which the Europeans may have introduced many years ago) that Tim Van Milligan (Apogee Components) utilized in the 1990s with his Centrix contest models. Because their 10.5 mm motors had such tiny nozzles, the two-stage version of the Centrix was staged using a length of fuse in the second stage motor's nozzle, which was lit by the first stage motor (it was either a "dash-zero" booster motor or had a very short delay--I don't remember). |