fin tab servos?

[BEAR]

Tthat is a neat idea!. I can easily imagine hinged payload doors similar to the STS. The ejection charge is set off, the doors open, and the parasail comes out. The shape of the sail could be altered, as the Wright Brothers altered the shape of their wings and use that to steer the bird home. You could also place a homing beacon in the back of your truck with the hatch open and have it land there. So much easier. Then there is no recovery. Close the hatch and drive off. LOL.
I have also finished making my first payload bay with my Raven mounted in it and using one of the switches I won at the club meeting in January. Your components sure are slick. I showed my grand-son when I powered it up and he was really surprised. Looking forward to hooking it up to my lap-top and using the FIP, and practicing with it. I have made a small low pressure chamber for testing my e-bays to see if I have them programmed properly. Nothing fancy and it is not instrumented to tell me simulated altitude, yet! It seems to do the job, though.

[dan winter]

When fin allignment is not perfect, the wind is a bit strong, and you want to keep the nose up during the coast phase……..

There has to be some pirated IC plans for enhanced flight control systems…some where…with all the miniaturization/mass/microgyro production…where’s a mass produced shipping container full of them? A cheapo chinese made to order cast in resin, nosecone weight with rechargable lithium batteries, 8 wires comming off…gps included… rejects from obsolete stores of antiquated surface to air missiles meant to satisfy world demand for the high power model rocket guidance on, windy dazes, and coast phase “ERGC” (Enhanced Rocket Guidance Control)…is it Aerocon that has them?…http://aeroconsystems.com/cart/ and paraglide rc recovery right back to me….Then I can keep my well lipidized gluteus firmily planted in in my parasol shaded servo powered portable dentists chair/multipal cup holdered/snack bag arm,complete with telescope flat screen real time fore/aft camera for the ultimate in sport rocketry flying/viewing

Eager, Dan W

[AdrianParticipant]

There are several RC airplane products that have GPS-based “return to home” functions that work with the aircraft servos. Getting the mechanical part right is the hard part for rockets. I’m starting to lean toward a deployed wing + low altitude chute instead of a steered chute, because ram air parachutes have fairly limited capability to penetrate a headwind. It would be cool to launch to 10 kft in 15 mph winds and have the rocket come zipping back to near the flight line before popping a landing chute.

[dan winter]

What do you think for the fin tab servo control???

http://www.futaba-rc.com/gyros/futm0830.html

http://www.futaba-rc.com/gyros/futm0807.html

I am hopeful…A retired designer/engineer contractor for NASA…also a model train buff I met here at Caboose hobbies suggested this……

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