bobby_hamill
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Been playing with OpenRocket's Photo Studio Function
What did you do rocket wise today?
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Wow! When I was a kid (~1967), I tried to do that same paint job as that LOC - black nose cone and florescent rainbow - but I only had brushes! I did several rockets that way, they looked... kinda awful...
bobby_hamill
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@ Blast it Tom
That is an old school North Coast Rocketry 4 inch Katana Kit
paint the airframe black then cut tape to match roll pattern then spray bomb the airframe white when you remove the tape
the black roll pattern will reveal itself
That is an old school North Coast Rocketry 4 inch Katana Kit
paint the airframe black then cut tape to match roll pattern then spray bomb the airframe white when you remove the tape
the black roll pattern will reveal itself
Did up a table to document good altimeter data after yesterday's launch. Yesterday's launch was a Florida July sweatfesfest. Problems with the PA and the perception of bad weather foreshortened the launch window. I managed to get 3 launches in. One was an H550, largest motor to date. Hinged NC on flights 1& 2. Forgot altimeter on flight 1. flight 2 altimeter reset due to hard landing. No damage. Flight 3 nominal.
rharshberger
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Most people do the light colors first as they cover better with darker colors of paint. A black base would require A LOT of white to cover, and the red sections would be darker red. A white base covers easily with both black and red while keepingvthe reds...well...red.
I looked around my build pile for an easy project I could finish in two weeks, before I head to Florida for most of July, and found my Baby Fiber Max. I started on the motor mount and nose coupler.
I’m working in my STEM class coming up for. Middle and High schools for our annual Cyber Security Camp.
https://palmettocybercamp.com/
I finally convinced my STEM folks that the water bottle rockets are “ok”. I think the kids will enjoy these more. So day spent on a launch and safety plan for 100 launches
on the last day (Estes Alpha III using A8-3 motors).
Opened up one of the many Mercury Redstone kits I bought over the past year to try and have built in 2 weeks. (Went back to launch plan )
After 40 plus years, I’m finally an NAR member- and will look at clubs here in South Carolina.
I’m just blessed and happy to be launching again and hopefully the kids will enjoy it. Seeing some of them pursue Cyber Security or STEM careers after HS is rewarding. And some of these kids participate in our Cyber Defense Competition (www.pcdc-sc.com) “Palmetto Cyber Defense Competition”. And start working with my organization making more than their teachers. They love the work and good at it.
Busy but worth it. All volunteer time.
https://palmettocybercamp.com/
I finally convinced my STEM folks that the water bottle rockets are “ok”. I think the kids will enjoy these more. So day spent on a launch and safety plan for 100 launches
on the last day (Estes Alpha III using A8-3 motors). Opened up one of the many Mercury Redstone kits I bought over the past year to try and have built in 2 weeks. (Went back to launch plan )
After 40 plus years, I’m finally an NAR member- and will look at clubs here in South Carolina.
I’m just blessed and happy to be launching again and hopefully the kids will enjoy it. Seeing some of them pursue Cyber Security or STEM careers after HS is rewarding. And some of these kids participate in our Cyber Defense Competition (www.pcdc-sc.com) “Palmetto Cyber Defense Competition”. And start working with my organization making more than their teachers. They love the work and good at it.
Busy but worth it. All volunteer time.
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Finally got around to attaching the fins to my upscale Citation Patriot... Been awhile since I have touched this project!
Yesterday is spilling over into today- yesterday we had our larger monthly club launch. I was hot and tired when I got home so waited until today to unload the car and work on processing my photos (sample launch photo below). We had total of a little over 100 launches in about 3.5 hours.
This is a cluster of 3 E12 motors, I don't know who owns it. We considered this to be tempting fate- 3 times the chance for CATO. All 3 motors lit and all 3 motors survived to give a really good flight.
This is a cluster of 3 E12 motors, I don't know who owns it. We considered this to be tempting fate- 3 times the chance for CATO. All 3 motors lit and all 3 motors survived to give a really good flight.
Saturday was our monthly launch. I looked at the weather on Friday. Winds 15 to 25 with higher gusts. Stayed home.
Offering a little guidance here and there as my wife is building her first rocket. Certainly fun watching her grow in anticipation as she sees it coming together. She chose a Cherokee E from my stash as her first. Now has a Great Goblin on order for her next rocket.
Sanding primer on the body of the Minnie Magg and put together the bulkhead/coupler for an Iris 2".
Sanding primer on the body of the Minnie Magg and put together the bulkhead/coupler for an Iris 2".
Oof, my sympathies.
Mine as well. Except he gets to work on real rockets at the Cape or adjoining facilities!
RocketTree
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Dry fit parts for 5.5" Flying Nose Cone. Cut 1/4" balsa fins and papered with cardstock & wood glue. Balsa was used to save weight and keep the CG forward. Next is cutting fin tab slots, and continue assembling with BSI 15min epoxy.
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Yeah, or so I assumed. And I can tell you that stepping out the door at an adjoining* facility in July is like walking smack into a wall. I'd rather work on real rockets at Wallops.
* Actually across the river in Titusville.
Ok, this is more a done yesterday thing, but I finished the sanding on it after midnight, so it’s today darn it.
From the couldn’t leave well enough alone department: my 4” LOC V2 now has 3D printed servo pods, cardstock control surfaces (for visual contrast) and sport scale fin profiling. Now to see if I can get it primed and a coat of white on it in time to fly on Saturday.
From the couldn’t leave well enough alone department: my 4” LOC V2 now has 3D printed servo pods, cardstock control surfaces (for visual contrast) and sport scale fin profiling. Now to see if I can get it primed and a coat of white on it in time to fly on Saturday.
terryg
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You never notice how much you are over building till you have to tear it apart to repair it. 
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Wow, that's unusual damage. What happened? A cato?
terryg
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The chute completely fouled and it came down horizontally. There was a slight crease in the tube from a previous hard landing and the impact finished it off. A new fin can tube and a coupler and it will fly again. I already have second set of stickershock vinyl, if it is needed.
Ah, gotcha. That is unusual! I almost expected you to say a dog got it and you had to yank it away lol
Good luck with the fix!
Well, if you'd REALLY overbuild it, it would have survived. 
After adding an Antar and a Redstone to my collection last month I thought I’d take a break from collecting.
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That’s long enough. Snapped up ten kits today, including some vintageish Quasar One kits. Pics when they arrive.
I’ll admit, I do have a problem. It’s called cashflow!
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That’s long enough. Snapped up ten kits today, including some vintageish Quasar One kits. Pics when they arrive.
I’ll admit, I do have a problem. It’s called cashflow!
Recent eBay win? I was watching those and the LOC lot. It wasn't too be for me though.
Yep. My old mate Bones. I wanted the Gangsta but I reached my discretionary spending.
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Started on my FSI Viking I BMS clone I bought from @Art Upton
Too cold to paint. Should have known. Gave me worse runs than a dodgy curry.
Ok, took me a min... Its the first day of Winter Down Under correct?
First day of summer here and: 'We're having a Heat Wave, A Tropical Heat Wave. The temperature's rising, It isn't surprising'
So it's too hot/humid to finish the second colors of my two white rockets waiting for their florescent orange colors.
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Winter down here starts officially 1st June.
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