metalhead100
04-06-2008, 05:27 PM
My father my son and I flew some of the fleet today.
Lil Ivan clone(my favorite scratch build so far)
Baby Bertha
#2 Pencil
AlphaIII clone
Alpha stretched(taller Alpha using a Alpha(balsa finned one) BT and a Plastic AlphaIII fincan)
Great weather ,light wind,All models recovered undamaged and all came home.
Estes wadding and engines A to C were used w/solar ignitors w/plugs and 6volt 4.7 amp gel cell and camera tripod launcher w/ 4 foot 1/8th rod from lowes.
Engines worked perfectly , no ignition problems at all. All parachutes deployed and opened fine.
All in all a great Sunday afternoon.
For a short fat rocket Lil Ivan can get with the program on a C-6 .....And the AlphaIII was just perfect,It looked like it was going 300 MPH.......and straight and true flight.
#2 pencil and Bertha did fine as well.....
And the trees were starved this time out.........we were far from them.
Jim
Now back to my Big Daddy #2 build.
Lil Ivan clone(my favorite scratch build so far)
Baby Bertha
#2 Pencil
AlphaIII clone
Alpha stretched(taller Alpha using a Alpha(balsa finned one) BT and a Plastic AlphaIII fincan)
Great weather ,light wind,All models recovered undamaged and all came home.
Estes wadding and engines A to C were used w/solar ignitors w/plugs and 6volt 4.7 amp gel cell and camera tripod launcher w/ 4 foot 1/8th rod from lowes.
Engines worked perfectly , no ignition problems at all. All parachutes deployed and opened fine.
All in all a great Sunday afternoon.
For a short fat rocket Lil Ivan can get with the program on a C-6 .....And the AlphaIII was just perfect,It looked like it was going 300 MPH.......and straight and true flight.
#2 pencil and Bertha did fine as well.....
And the trees were starved this time out.........we were far from them.
Jim
Now back to my Big Daddy #2 build.