What is your go to rocket for windy conditions?

[terryg]

Mine is the Art Applewhite Steath.
Goes straight up despite the wind and is very easy to recover.

 

[David Schwantz]

12" dia V-2, weighs 68 lbs, Goes straight up, makes a 1/4 roll at apogee, pops drogue, and comes straight down to 700' main deployment. Only gets to about 3000' agl as it is big, heavy and draggy

 

[PSLimo]

Mine is the Art Applewhite Steath.
Goes straight up despite the wind and is very easy to recover.

+1. Windy or cloudy I can always get a low and loud flight in.

 

[kuririn]

We had windy conditions at our launch yesterday.
We flew MicroMaxx rockets.
Didn't lose any.

 

[86mustang408w]

I have two I always use first, either the Estes Tigres and High-Flier XL. This was testing out the XL back in August. I changed a few things for windy days and possible tree recoveries. It about a week after I broke my own rules and lost one.

 

[techrat]

I take rockets with tube fins, which do not weathercock as much.
Or I'll take something small with streamer recovery like a Goblin -- and then fly on a C6-5 instead of a D.

 

[BEC]

Actually my go-to model for "the weather is too lousy to fly, but I came all this way, so I have to fly something" is a an Alpha III with a streamer. Windy conditions or rainy conditions or both...

But there is definitely some merit in a tube-fin model.

The BMS School Rocket (the BT-50-based original) is also a good choice, actually.

 

[SolarYellow]

Something light with a high initial and average thrust but low total impulse.

 

[Back_at_it]

Something I don't care about. Generally cheap plastic fin rockets with streamers. Think Alpha III, Generic E2X, Phantom Blue, etc.

Honestly, If it's too windy I just watch other people fly and sit there happy I'm not losing my stuff.

 

[bjphoenix]

If it's windy I just fly smaller motors and use streamers. Watching a lot of rockets I decided that power to weight ratio is an important factor in the wind. A BT-60 motor with B or C motor will tend to go horizontal during thrust more than a BT-50 or smaller rocket. Midpower and Highpower seem to do well during boost too.
It has occurred to me that margin of stability should be an important consideration too although much harder to study.

 

[Hobie1dog]

SBR Diablo

 

[neil_w]

Preparedness is key. I have a bin full of Black Star Voyagers and Saturn 1Bs that I keep for just such an occasion. Just pull one out of there at random and don’t worry about it.