stefanj
08-13-2005, 07:33 PM
Oregon Rocketry had a members-only launch in Banks, OR today.
I only had a few hours to fly, having a company picnic to get to.
I launched:
CC Express: C11-0 to D12-0. Man, did that move! I would have gotten the upper stage back, but it drifted over a wide creek in a ditch lined with trees and great tangles of backberries.
Semroc Javelin, on a A3-4T in an adaptor. Amazing performance, including an apogee deployment. Got it back despite it being on a parachute.
Skyhook: Clone. On an A3-4T. Another high flight. I can't imagine how this would fly on a B or C. The screw eye pulled out of the cone . . . first time that every happened. Found the cone while retrieving another model.
Sparrow Hawk: A medium-large THOY kit. F40-7. Suffered early ejection; I must have mis-assembled the reload. The parachute was kind of roasted, so there may have been some kind of blow-through as well. Otherwise unharmed.
Aries II: Tiny two-stager, from a 1962 Model Rocket News. B6-0 to A8-5. I built it deliberately "crude," with a balsa staging coupler. It staged and flew well to astonishing altitude. The upper stage body seperated from the cone and parachute; ironically, I got the latter back while totally losing track of the body.
Aero-Dart: Original 1962 version, with no payload section and three paralleleogram shaped fins. Flew it on a D13-4 RMS. Flew really nicely; moderate altitude.
Viking II & II/C: A slight upscale of the FSI Viking II, built with foil-lined 24mm motor tube. Flew it on a C11-7. Fast, high, and stable, and ejected very near Apogee. I've flow this one enough to risk kissing it goodbye; next month it goes up on a E9-8.
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On an Olde Timey Rockets not, another flyer had an original Estes Colonial Viper and a Centuri Satellite Killer, which flew fine several times.
I only had a few hours to fly, having a company picnic to get to.
I launched:
CC Express: C11-0 to D12-0. Man, did that move! I would have gotten the upper stage back, but it drifted over a wide creek in a ditch lined with trees and great tangles of backberries.
Semroc Javelin, on a A3-4T in an adaptor. Amazing performance, including an apogee deployment. Got it back despite it being on a parachute.
Skyhook: Clone. On an A3-4T. Another high flight. I can't imagine how this would fly on a B or C. The screw eye pulled out of the cone . . . first time that every happened. Found the cone while retrieving another model.
Sparrow Hawk: A medium-large THOY kit. F40-7. Suffered early ejection; I must have mis-assembled the reload. The parachute was kind of roasted, so there may have been some kind of blow-through as well. Otherwise unharmed.
Aries II: Tiny two-stager, from a 1962 Model Rocket News. B6-0 to A8-5. I built it deliberately "crude," with a balsa staging coupler. It staged and flew well to astonishing altitude. The upper stage body seperated from the cone and parachute; ironically, I got the latter back while totally losing track of the body.
Aero-Dart: Original 1962 version, with no payload section and three paralleleogram shaped fins. Flew it on a D13-4 RMS. Flew really nicely; moderate altitude.
Viking II & II/C: A slight upscale of the FSI Viking II, built with foil-lined 24mm motor tube. Flew it on a C11-7. Fast, high, and stable, and ejected very near Apogee. I've flow this one enough to risk kissing it goodbye; next month it goes up on a E9-8.
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On an Olde Timey Rockets not, another flyer had an original Estes Colonial Viper and a Centuri Satellite Killer, which flew fine several times.