04-06-2019, 07:57 PM
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Old Far...er...Rocketeer
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Plano, TX resident since 1998.
Posts: 3,965
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Originally Posted by LeeR
Interesting. I’ve only flown a 13mm stager once, my scratch-built Double Mini Max. It was A10 to A10. It flew pretty well, but not the roaring liftoff I expected. Upper stage flight angle was not perfectly vertical, but it’s a gap-stager, so I suspect it may have had a bit of arc-over before upper stage ignition. Recovery was fine. <snip>
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When I got back in the hobby (almost 20 years ago, upon the release of October Sky on video), one of my first flights was my 1969 K-40 Midget, resurrected from my attic with many broken fins, and flown using an A10-0T in the booster with a 13-18mm adapter.
It seemed like that booster burned forever - finally the sustainer lit and the flight was 100% successful. I was totally psyched by it - I've been a staging fiend ever since 
Doug
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