5" Rocket

I have a few projects planned out to take on the “Unknown Comic” John W. in some altitude attempts this year. .

Hey, if I’d known THAT I wouldn’t have volunteered those cones to you 😉 All the NCR records are reachable, with the possible exception of the I… that was set on an I32, which is essentially gone from the face of the earth. I believe that record is safe. The K and M records are especially attainable to those who will go after them, IMHO. The M record was set on a small M hybrid, so it has considerable upside (no pun intended).

Tony is the king of altitude — I’m astounded at some of his stuff. Tony has helped me a lot on things like high altitude BP issues, etc. and he gets up there with EX loads. Very cool!

J

That is what John S. would have said. No helping the enemy…right. Thanks John, I am going for the ex records. Maybe the club needs to have EX records like TRA, that way you can still keep yours since I don’t fly commercial motors anymore. Plus I really am testing design for right now anyway. Not at your and Tony’s level yet, but I am working towards it.

I’d love seeing the club records broken down into the same categories as TRA (single motor, staged, EX, hybrid, etc.)

Tony, our dart is indeed 29mm. We are going to start with a 75mm diameter booster staging to a 29mm dart. Actually, given some of the tiny altimeters, one could probably go all the way down to 24mm on the dart. I have some 29mm glass tubing (somewhere! lost it when I moved) and I’m going to utilize that.

For added mass I’m going to either use lead shot or sand. I’ll build it as heavy as possible. My hunch is that it will take some lead shot to do the trick.

It would be very below average to have a lead nose cone get loose from 30K 😮 😮 😮 😮 😮

I was planning on setting up EX records, staged records, clustered records…basically mirroring the record system that Tripoli has. Code is in development.

Warren