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Old 09-09-2019, 04:27 PM
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I have been launching rockets since 1975, I think thousands of flights. Yesterday I was following the glider from my Estes Solo and I was hit in the head by a ball of wadding. That’s a first for me!

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Old 09-09-2019, 04:29 PM
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I have been launching rockets since 1995, I think thousands of flights. Yesterday I was following the Glider from my Estes Solo and I was hit in the head by a ball of wadding. That’s a first for me!


I hope you are feeling OK.
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Old 09-09-2019, 05:32 PM
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Old 09-09-2019, 06:59 PM
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This could be the first in the history of launching model rockets!
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Old 09-09-2019, 07:23 PM
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I’ve caught a piece or two of wadding out of the air while waiting for the rocket to descend under parachute, but I don’t think or can’t recall having ever been ‘hit’ by any.

I’m glad you are ok and un-injured. Otherwise, the powers that be might make us start attaching recovery streamers to our chute wadding.


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Old 09-09-2019, 09:34 PM
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I’ve caught a piece or two of wadding out of the air while waiting for the rocket to descend under parachute, but I don’t think or can’t recall having ever been ‘hit’ by any.

I’m glad you are ok and un-injured. Otherwise, the powers that be might make us start attaching recovery streamers to our chute wadding.


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Great idea, probably a good science experiment. I bet it comes down faster tied to a melted streamer
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Old 09-10-2019, 12:31 PM
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I have been launching rockets since 1975, I think thousands of flights. Yesterday I was following the glider from my Estes Solo and I was hit in the head by a ball of wadding. That’s a first for me!


Be gad it was not a wad of bird poop! I almost got hit by gull poop the last time I flew.....
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Old 09-11-2019, 07:11 PM
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Here is the video, I was recording so unfortunately you can’t see me take one for the team.

https://youtu.be/Z8oWYWrW1r0
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My old R/C X-1 Rocket Boosted Glider used water ballast in the nose, to counterbalance the propellant mass of a G12 reload in the tail as it burned away. Rigged to begin draining the water at liftoff, empty 2-3 seconds after burnout. Otherwise, it would have been dangerously tail-heavy at liftoff, or dangerously nose-heavy for glide.

Anyway..... after one of the flights of the X-1, Chad Ring came over and told me that he felt drops of ballast water from the X-1 hit him (like raindrops). Wasn't complaining, he felt "special".



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Anyway..... after one of the flights of the X-1, Chad Ring came over and told me that he felt drops of ballast water from the X-1 hit him (like raindrops). Wasn't complaining, he felt "special".

Did you ask him if he was sure it was ballast water he felt?

How did the X-1 fly after transition to glide? That's a pretty small and thin wing!
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