iocat
New Member
I met someone this weekend -- he helped me get my rocket out of a tree in Redmond, WA -- and he suggested I join here.
As a child I did rockets in a school program and dreamt of getting that 110-camera in a rocket that Estes made back then. I've done a few launches with my (now adult) son, but I saw the Estes Astrocam in a hobby shop recently and that was like my childhood dream. Since August I've done 3 days of launches (12 total launches) with two rockets, the Astrocam and a... "Generic E2X" I still have both rockets, so that is definitely a personal record, although the Astrocam only has about a 66% "good landing" rate. I got to enjoy seeing Astrocam's ejection charge blow off the fins on flight 5 of 9, so that was kind of exciting.
I'm really here to find out a few things about mods I want to make to the Astrocam rocket -- ideally a second chute (or a streamer?) just for the nose cone to reduce rotation during descent and increase the chance I record the nosecone / camera. Longer term I'd like to get that nosecone on a rocket I build from scratch more or less.
I'm curious what the attitude is towards folks who fly their rockets w/ no decals or paint.
As a child I did rockets in a school program and dreamt of getting that 110-camera in a rocket that Estes made back then. I've done a few launches with my (now adult) son, but I saw the Estes Astrocam in a hobby shop recently and that was like my childhood dream. Since August I've done 3 days of launches (12 total launches) with two rockets, the Astrocam and a... "Generic E2X" I still have both rockets, so that is definitely a personal record, although the Astrocam only has about a 66% "good landing" rate. I got to enjoy seeing Astrocam's ejection charge blow off the fins on flight 5 of 9, so that was kind of exciting.
I'm really here to find out a few things about mods I want to make to the Astrocam rocket -- ideally a second chute (or a streamer?) just for the nose cone to reduce rotation during descent and increase the chance I record the nosecone / camera. Longer term I'd like to get that nosecone on a rocket I build from scratch more or less.
I'm curious what the attitude is towards folks who fly their rockets w/ no decals or paint.