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Old 08-04-2014, 04:44 PM
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Originally Posted by ghrocketman
Wow.
A 29mm F15 in a Cherokee-D.
Wonder if it goes any higher than one powered by an Aerotech E15/E30 as the motor weighs a lot more and so would the rocket due to all the clay in the nose. I'm thinking all that weight would offset the extra ~10n-sec of total impulse the F15 has over the E15/E30.

I always have at least one 18" Cherokee-D in my fleet.
The last one that I LOST was on either an E9-6 or E9-8. Winds were very low at ground level but were NOT at apogee ejection height.
A 12" chute was way too much for the winds up at around 2500'...should have used a long streamer instead. I think I lost that one in like 2007 or 2008.


+1 to the streamer concept. I'm going to making the fins from basswood, so a 48" streamer should be plenty.
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