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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: LePaul on December 22, 2006, 08:27:11 PM
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Check out some of the video clips on this site...
http://www.boostervision.com/boostervision/video.asp (http://www.boostervision.com/boostervision/video.asp)
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Here's a link that works. ;)
http://www.boostervision.com/boostervision/video.asp
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LOL you win!
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Fun stuff, thanks.
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Some of those vids are fascinating, Lepaul!
I don't know if you remember the rockets they used to make in the 1970's that had the small camera that would take photos when your rocket reached apogee, black and white crappy pics, but MAN that was technology!
Here I was at 13 sporting plaid pants and a couple small rockets.. :rofl
(http://pic4.picturetrail.com/VOL767/2726312/14205248/215623774.jpg)
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Don't those make you want to jump right back into rocketry?
I read that Estes has an "Oracle" rocket, with a built in camera. I haven't found one locally but maybe this spring. :)
Once I have this robot project completed, it might be time to get back into Estes, Aerotech and multistage rockets again
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i had one of those payloaders (one on the left) ... A little screamer , and a goblin (the "D" engine monster) . I saved up for a dual stage ,,,but it burned out its side on its second launch.
another year and i'll have a legit excuse to play with rockets again .
we can still get most of those rockets too . the estes are at toysRus ,kbee and Galaxy hobby (http://h1069361.hobbyshopnow.com/services/advanceresultsDetail.asp?display=pictures&strProd=&strSearchType=ALL&strInCategory=KA&strInManufacturer=ALL&pagenum=1&numperpage=50&strSortBy=ProdNumAsc) in Lynnwood has a sweet collection .
Just dont drool over those 80 sec motors ... hell thats like stratosphere compared to our old 6-12 sec ones .
(notice Rips mum musta Really loved ya to make ya go "Plaid" ,,,, all I got was handme down levi's):p
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Oh Ros...
I just found my Aerotech kit...I have the launcher and rocket....Initiator one. If I could hack into that thing with a mini camera, that would be cool.
I have this one (http://h1069361.hobbyshopnow.com/products/description.asp?prod=ARO89001A)
Thanks for posting that, I forgot I bought one of those kits from a Hobby Shop going out of business. I got the whole thing for $55
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Originally posted by LePaul
Don't those make you want to jump right back into rocketry?
I read that Estes has an "Oracle" rocket, with a built in camera. I haven't found one locally but maybe this spring. :)
Once I have this robot project completed, it might be time to get back into Estes, Aerotech and multistage rockets again
Wait a minute....Ahh nevermind. Merry Christmas! :D
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I recall seeing several rockets from Estes a few years back when my dad and myself were into it with the cameras. They also had one called shell shocked that you put an egg into and then launched it. One of our rockets had a burn through and it cut the parachute/nose cone line. After that we kind of gave up, kind of an expensive hobby I guess.
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Rockets are still fairly cheep to get into . I enjoyed them and our little rocket club all thru grade school and jr high .
We used to get the local Mason's lodge involved too and they'ed donate to our club so we always had good launch pads and spare motors .
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The trick is finding a good place to launch a rocket that exceeds 3,000ft. What goes up can't always be found when it comes down LOL
I'm on the approach end of a busy civilian/Air-Army Guard base...so it would be a really bad idea to launch here ;)
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The last rocket I built used a G motor that I got from a guy I knew who had a license to buy them. The motor that I got had adamaged nozzle and he didn’t want to risk using it in an expensive rocket. I made a rocket as light as possible and glued the motor in. The payload was a 4’ parachute. It went up forever and the chute deployed well. 4’ of parachute with not much weight under it means a very slow decent. We watched that thing with binoculars for 15 or 20 minutes as it floated towards Big Lake from Houston, Alaska. A friend followed it in a car all the way to the end of the road at Big Lake; he said he still had to use binoculars to see it and it went beyond the lake and out of sight.
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My Aerotech came with 2 F motors
I can't imagine G's
The first flight worked flawlessly...I have no idea how high it went but we had to really force ourselves not to blink to follow it! When that big chute opened, the 5 of us fanned out to figure out where it would come down. Thankfully it was only a 1/2 mile from where we shot it off. But...it landed in an apple tree, 7 feet from the ground...just high enough where none of us could reach it. Then one of the guys put his dirt bike under it and stood on the bike to nab it.
What was funny was that all the paint on the nose cone had peeled off
I was looking at the Aerotech site and they have some refillable rocket motors available. I wonder how cost effective that is?
The funniest launch I saw was a guy trying to give his remote controlled glider a rocket acsent a-al-space shuttle style. He used a low powered rocket (A8-3) but just the sheer acceleration was too much....the wings were back at the pad while the fuselage tumbled along to 200ft. :cool:
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I just had a geekgasm. :o
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Here’s how stupid I am/was:
When I was in junior high I built a rubber powered Guillows Piper Tri Pacer. I got tired of flying it with rubber power so I fixed an Estes D-12-O to the bottom of the fuselage. To launch it I held it behind the wing with my hand on top of the fuselage while my friend lit the motor with a match lit fuse. I figured that my hand would be safe from the exhaust blast because the fuselage was between my hand and the motor. My theory was good, but I hadn’t figured what would actually happen.
An instant after the motor lit something hit my arm. Confused I looked into the sky and air around me; there was a perfect, vertical, 20 foot diameter smoke ring that went from my outstretched hand to my tricep and then beyond. The Tri Pacer had looped and stung me. My short sleeve shirt had a chunk burned off at the end of the sleeve and was smoking. My arm/tricep had a 3 to 4 inch black mark where the sleeve met my arm and the shirt was burned. My arm didn’t hurt too much so I figured the mark was rocket fuel ash. I found the Tri Pacer and went inside to wash off the ash/dust. The black mark didn’t come off like I expected. As I washed my arm it started to bleed. I still had some layers of skin but had a nice third degree burn. I wore long sleeve shirts for the next month so I wouldn’t have to explain what had happened to my parents. I’m still in awe that a rocket motor could expend that much heat as it grazed my arm at what must have been a pretty good clip.
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Oh ouch!
One of my friends bought one of those bulk packs of Estes Model Rocket engines. He mustve had 20 rocket motors. After his only 2 rockets had been shot off and lost, anything was fair game. One of the most memorable things was watching him take a hot glue gun to various old Fisher Price toy trucks, cars and etc....then, out to a big empty parking lot. One by one, off the zoomed to their fiery doom :rofl
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my fav distructo was when we took a F4 phantom model and 2 A-6 or A-12's i dont remember witch and a quart jar of smokeless powder ... packed the whole front end of the F4 ... packed in the motors and launched it off a dock out into the lake .... it was way cool .. it shot out up our ramp and across the lake then took to burning for id guess around 75-100 feet befor the double skip sizzle into the water ...
we sacrifed several models to the cause ,,, but none of them performed the way that poor F4 did .
Now for your 3000 + footers didnt you guys use streamers instead of chutes ?? thats what we did ..and we still had to go fetch them outta the center of town ,about 1/2 mile away and down the hill . (insert race of the schwinns here ) :D