New Design -- Azteca

[Tau Zero]

From the attached RockSim 8 file:


Even though I aesthetically prefer rockets with 3 fins instead of 4, the deployment velocities on this design were just too high for my tastes. Adding a fourth fin added enough drag to slow this rocket down nicely.

I also initially used an 8" long ST-10 tube for the lower body, but bumped it up to ST-13 to provide additional drag, as well.

After the Tau Zero and the Zeta, this is the third of my designs to use the Semroc BC-760 "Tau Zero" nose cone."


Quick! For extra points, who can point out the common elements of those three model names? :confused: (No fair looking at the RockSim file first!) :eek: :rolleyes:

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[Mark II]

Another design from the Creative Mind Of CenturiGuy®...

(Could an alternative name for it be "Tau 4F"?)

:D :D :D

Seriously, though, it looks good, Jay!

MarkII

[CPMcGraw]

Quick! For extra points, who can point out the common elements of those three model names? :confused: (No fair looking at the RockSim file first!) :eek: :rolleyes:

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I think you used the same fins on all three designs. Perhaps even the ST-13 lower main tube? All are 18mm?

[johnnwwa]

Jay
I loaded up a Quest C6Q-5 simmed at 8.03 fps . Max alt 995.54.

Nice design

BAR
John

[Tau Zero]

After the Tau Zero and the Zeta, this is the third of my designs to use the Semroc BC-760 "Tau Zero" nose cone."

Quick! For extra points, who can point out the common elements of those three model names?I think you used the same fins on all three designs. Perhaps even the ST-13 lower main tube? All are 18mm?*Now* you're just bein' silly. :rolleyes:


Let me spell it out... literally. :eek: :confused:


Tau Zero. Take "ta" and "ze," swap their places, and voila... Zeta.

Take Zeta, shake well, and get "azte." Throw in the random letter "c," repeat one you've already used ("a")... and you get Azteca.


Believe me, I didn't *consciously* mean to do it!

(C'mon, Craig, I'm *sure* you probably looked at the "Comments" section. :rolleyes: :chuckle: )


Thanks for playing, everybody!

[Tau Zero]

Another design from the Creative Mind Of CenturiGuy®...Hmm... I'm *likin'* the sound of that. (Although Craig has apparently started referring to me as Jay "Tau Zero" Goemmer. ;) )


(Could an alternative name for it be "Tau 4F"?)

:D :D :DYes, it *could* be, at that. :chuckle:


Seriously, though, it looks good, Jay!I loaded up a Quest C6Q-5 simmed at 8.03 fps . Max alt 995.54.

Nice designGlad you like it, guys!

I'm beginning to discover that lots of the mindlessly simple 3- and 4NC designs may be really incredibly overpowered, and that would explain why (at least in *my* mind) some of them tend to shred chutes for no obviously apparent reason.

Case in point, the Centuri Chuter-Two (or "-2", if you prefer) (http://www.oldrocketforum.com/showpost.php?p=51486&postcount=210) using Semroc parts... and my ST-13-based 1.48X upscale with *much* nicer deployment velocities (http://www.oldrocketforum.com/showpost.php?p=53687&postcount=1).


Cheers,

[InFlight]

Tau Zero. Take "ta" and "ze," swap their places, and voila... Zeta. Take Zeta, shake well, and get "azte." Throw in the random letter "c," repeat one you've already used ("a")... and you get Azteca.
Do you folks in Idaho spell Potato with an E?

:chuckle:

[CPMcGraw]

...C'mon, Craig, I'm *sure* you probably looked at the "Comments" section...

Comments? Urp...

You mean, you actually told me what to look for? (Scratching frantically through the digital files to look...) I'm supposed to actually...READ...those comments? :o

Ahh, well, yes, there they are! (Expression of genuine simulated surprise plastered across my face.) All spelled out and waiting for me, as if they were meant to be there...All along...

How about that...? :D

[Tau Zero]

Do you folks in Idaho spell Potato with an E?

:chuckle:Ray,

Nope. Only that Dan Quayle boy. (Or was that Dan *Quail?*) And he wasn't from around here. :p

(This from the state that Dan Rather[?] described as having the nation's most Republican legislature. :rolleyes: Sun Valley makes up for it by having the highest concentration of well-to-do Democrats.)


Actually, the only time we spell potato with an "e" at the end is when there's an "s" immediately following that particular "e."


Take Zeta, shake well, and get "azte." !For the record, if you shake a potato, it doesn't make a noise. Regardless of whether it's raw or baked.

And *especially* not if it's been mashed. :eek:


Cheers,

[JRThro]

For the record, if you shake a potato, it doesn't make a noise. Regardless of whether it's raw or baked.
Jay, if you spin a raw potato on your table top and then stop it suddenly, does it start spinning again when you let go of it like a raw egg does?

Hmmm, now I'm thinking of a new NAR competition event: Potato lofting. :rolleyes:

[Tau Zero]

Jay, if you spin a raw potato on your table top and then stop it suddenly, does it start spinning again when you let go of it like a raw egg does?Usually not. :eek:


Hmmm, now I'm thinking of a new NAR competition event: Potato lofting. :rolleyes:If you fermented potatoes long enough, the resulting beverage might tie in nicely with beerlofting events.

(Drunken Russian accent) "Is not wodka! Is ROCKET FUEL!" ;) :chuckle:


Cheers (urp!),

[Mark II]

JR: I thought that thing with the raw egg only happened on Leap Day... ;)

... and that potatoes only did that on Idaho Statehood Day... :D

MarkII

[Tau Zero]

JR: I thought that thing with the raw egg only happened on Leap Day... ;)

... and that potatoes only did that on Idaho Statehood Day... :DMark,

(hypnotic voice) "When the moon is in the seventh house / And Jupiter aligns with Mars..."

:chuckle:


Cheers,