Previously, I made the wings and internal bulkheads of the Double Shuttle with balsa papered with 20 pound stationery glued on with white glue. The last Double Shuttle used heavy balsa that was papered, so the wings were very strong, but papering the balsa with white glue was very time consuming. So, this time I decided to use light 6 mm Depron covered with adhesive paper. Most of the previous work can be found here:
https://www.rocketryforum.com/threads/double-shuttle-has-double-cato.49927/
The 2 objectives for this project are as follows:
1) Making the wings and bulkheads with light 6 mm Depron and finding out if the model will be strong enough to fly.
2) Put an electronic ejection charge in one of the gliders to separate both twin gliders at apogee.
The electronic ejection was decided to be a precaution to separate the twin gliders early in case if only one of the 2 motors fired. In hind sight I now think this is a good strategy to use because the delay time of the motors may be too long for a successful flight.
https://www.rocketryforum.com/threads/double-shuttle-has-double-cato.49927/
The 2 objectives for this project are as follows:
1) Making the wings and bulkheads with light 6 mm Depron and finding out if the model will be strong enough to fly.
2) Put an electronic ejection charge in one of the gliders to separate both twin gliders at apogee.
The electronic ejection was decided to be a precaution to separate the twin gliders early in case if only one of the 2 motors fired. In hind sight I now think this is a good strategy to use because the delay time of the motors may be too long for a successful flight.