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A little bit of plastic cement or CA glue is all you need.
A little bit of plastic cement or CA glue is all you need.
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Also, take the minimum motor requirements very seriously. I put in a B (I don't remember which, sorry) and it never cleared the pad.
It was a great one for us because my son was able to be directly involved in the process, which is a lot harder for him on more advanced models.
Here's a liftoff shot. Estes C6-3 as recommended. 262 feet per FlightSketch Mini aboard. It goes much better and almost twice as high on a Q-jet C12-4. Because almost all the extra total impulse gets consumed by more drag, the D16-4 doesn't go much higher.
I haven't broken off any landing pads flying it (from that grassy field) but I have now broken one off when the model fell in my workroom. I've glued it back on and reinforced the joint with some heat shrink tubing. We'll see if it holds up.
No, I didn't mean that the MAV didn't go as high on a D16 as on a C12, but rather that the difference wasn't much and certainly didn't take good advantage of the additional 3 N-s of total impulse. Here are the two most-comparable flights' data:My son built one of these. I had figured to break out some QJet D16s, probably the -4. So you think it went higher with a C12-4, rather than the D16-4? Interesting. I don't have any C12s, not sure its worth ordering right now though.
No, I didn't mean that the MAV didn't go as high on a D16 as on a C12, but rather that the difference wasn't much and certainly didn't take good advantage of the additional 3 N-s of total impulse. Here are the two most-comparable flights' data:
D16-4: https://flightsketch.com/flights/804/
C12-4 earlier the same afternoon: https://flightsketch.com/flights/790/
Yeah. As I mentioned above, I got 262 feet on a C6-3. The MAV, like the 1/200 RTF Saturn V, goes almost twice as high on a Q-Jet C12-4 over an Estes C6-3...even though the C12 only has 1 N-s higher total impulse (per certification data).Wow. Big difference vs the claimed 250 feet on a C6-3. So I will definitely want to look at using a D16-4 or C12 if I can get ahold of some for a good price. Thanks.
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