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Old 05-03-2017, 03:48 PM
PeterAlway PeterAlway is offline
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Originally Posted by Gus
The Alway brothers actually patented this method of model rocket recovery which they call a "backslider." It does not use a streamer. The nosecone is glued in place. There is a small vent hole (1/4" or so for BT5 or BT20 rockets) in the body tube just below the nosecone. At ejection, the vented gas markedly changes the rocket's angle of attack, causing it to backslide.

You can see their patent here: https://www.google.com/patents/US6926576



If you scroll to the bottom of the patent, you will see that Blue Origin cites our patent in several of their patents.

The little devil on my left shoulder is suggesting I should use that to leverage some scale data out of spacex. But the little devil on my right shoulder is telling me that would be too much work. I'll be listening to the one on my right shoulder.

Peter Alway
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