The Outlander project

[X-wooshprez]

Just found this video Chris Lillesand had put together.
It was fun watching it again.
If we just had the dough for four 75mm. casings and Vmax loads...
Plus another K510 or whatever for the saucer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXR0y4p5cB4

[Pem Tech]

Wow....
Incredible, just incredible

[luke strawwalker]

WAY KEWL!!! :cool:

LateR! OL JR :)

[jeffk813]

That

Was

AWESOME!
:eek:

[ghrocketman]

Very cool FLIGHT portion of video.
5 and a half minutes leading up to the launch on video not so cool.

[X-wooshprez]

That is the first time anyone has ever shared that video.
Sorry if you don't understand the length of the video.
Sometimes it's nice to have some interviews and perspective setting shots on rocket videos.
Just up and down video's get really boring to those of us who have seen all that a million times. Plus, it's just worth it on a project this incredible.
All the other flight video's are on the WOOSH website if you guys want to look at them.
Click on the "View the videos" line

http://wooshrocketry.org/Outlander/Outlander_MWP3.htm

[rosko_racer]

Just found this video Chris Lillesand had put together.
It was fun watching it again.
If we just had the dough for four 75mm. casings and Vmax loads...
Plus another K510 or whatever for the saucer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXR0y4p5cB4


Very cool indeed!!! Makes one want to recreate that on the LPR level... Can it?

- RPR

[X-wooshprez]

I suppose if you really wanted to it could be done.
The toughest part would be to figure out a way to get a parachute out of the booster.
There's no room in that model as it is to put much of a chute in it, if you used that
area to stage it from say a D12-0 (which it really needs) to any 13mm motor in the saucer section then you have noplace to put a chute.
I wonder if you could fit a little perfectflight timer in the saucer?

[kapton]

Scott, wasn't that staging radio controlled?

[luke strawwalker]

Very cool FLIGHT portion of video.
5 and a half minutes leading up to the launch on video not so cool.


Yeah, I kept telling the guy babbling behind the microphone to "Shut up and get on with it" while watching the vid...

My wife thought I was nuts... LOL:)

Later! OL JR :)

PS. she might not be far from the truth! :eek: :D

[dlazarus6660]

Too much of a waste of time. It needs to be edited so we get the launch first and then the set up to the launch.

[X-wooshprez]

When I introduced the project I wanted folks to have some basic understanding of what it is we were about to do. Sure, some of the people on the field were itchin' for us to push the button and get it over with but if you didn't understand what the flight plan was then how would you know if we were successful?
The rocket was unlike any basic 3FNC rocket by a large margin.
We actually ran the Estes model in a windtunnel to figure out where the CG had to be in order to guarantee stability. Who does that?
The thing came down in four sections, each under their own parachute.
The little nosecone you see on top of Brad Deimels' head weighed 22 lbs. alone.
It had to have it's own parachute.
We debated a recovery plan over and over again and when we settled on what we did we had confidence that the rocket would recover as planned.

Yes, the saucer section staging was completely under the control of the Wireless remote control. The first event on the WRC was to stage the saucer, the second event on that handheld unit was to pop the chutes on the saucer. The saucer also had a Gwiz MC onboard to automatically control the chute deployment. If anything had gone wrong during the initial boost the man on that WRC would have fired the parachute deployment charge and skip igniting the K510 in the saucer. By the way the saucer also had two separation charges built into the bottom of it to push it off the booster. They were wired to fire along with the saucer motor.
The Outlander booster had it's electronics inside one of the large tanks on the side of the craft. This also held a WRC and a Gwiz MC. Plus a PET 2 timer. The Timer was supposed to fire the four Cesaroni smoky sam G motors in the horizontal tanks for spin motors. It would have looked cool but I doubt they would have actually spun the rocket much. They never lit, we never investigated why but in subsequent flights using that timer I have found that the darn thing just doesn't work. The WRC and the Gwiz MC were both wired to fire the main parachute charge. One or both worked as planned. I know the guys pressed the button on the WRC but my gut tells me the G wiZ actually fired the pyro charge. There is a pretty long delay in the actuation of a charge when using the WRC. I don't think that they reacted that far in advance to get that deployment to have worked that well. Trust the Gwiz MC is my moto.

[Paul S]

Too much of a waste of time. It needs to be edited so we get the launch first and then the set up to the launch.

At the bottom of your screen when watching the video, you will find a little slider. You can use that to skip past the parts you do not want to watch.

If you're going to watch rocket videos, you had better learn to use it.

[jetlag]

That was really an awesome piece of hard work and a great flight!
Thanks for showing us!

Allen