You can rig boosters to do that. The Centuri Black Widow booster would glide back: http://www.ninfinger.org/rockets/ca...d/71dcen36.html

All this goon talk has me thinking about doing one of my own. Anybody know where I can get a decal of Hervé Villechaize?

Keep in mind that having the sustainer glide back from apogee could result in significant transverse travel - you could have a long walk for recovery.

Here's a scratch built booster I had which would (unintentionally) glide back (when it wasn't catoing ). Doug.



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If the intent is to have glide recovery, then significant transverse travel is the object of the exercise, isn't it? And then significant exercise is the object of the recovery. And so on.

So... a weighted nose cone, two large fins out of three or four, and voila!

And now, back to Bill's regularly scheduled topic.

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My perspective is that typical rocket gliders burn out at fairly low alitudes, and thus will usually come down within reasonable range. But a rocket that gets 800' or 1200' and then turns into a glider poses a dramatically different recovery scenario. Just tracking it in the sky right after ejection is an iffy proposition.

Granted, the glide/slope ratio of a gliding airframe likely ain't as good as a purpose built glider, but assuming a mere 5:1, the 1200' altitude could result in over a mile walk, each way. That's a distance more in line with HPR than MR.

I suppose that, if one designed an airframe to glide, one could go the next step and make it turn as well, thus getting it to make a corkscrew on the way down instead of flying away like my CiCi2 sustainer did a couple years ago

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Sounds like a good idea for our RBG contest! Start designing, Doug!

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Ya know, I was thinking about that, but wasn't expecting the gauntlet quite so fast

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Great. Now I'll have to try it.

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Build floor: Centuri Mini Dactyl Estes - Low Boom SST Semroc - Marauder, Shrike, SST Shuttle

In paint: Canaroc Starfighter Scorpion Estes F-22 Air Superiority Fighter, Multi-Roc, Solar Sailer II Semroc Cyber III

Ready to fly: Estes - Solar Sailer II Semroc - Earmark, Groonie Der V 1/2

Okay, I'll give you this one, but I'm not even going to look for the other two I have planned.

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Build floor: Centuri Mini Dactyl Estes - Low Boom SST Semroc - Marauder, Shrike, SST Shuttle

In paint: Canaroc Starfighter Scorpion Estes F-22 Air Superiority Fighter, Multi-Roc, Solar Sailer II Semroc Cyber III

Ready to fly: Estes - Solar Sailer II Semroc - Earmark, Groonie Der V 1/2

It's all good. I'm not a topic Nazi. I've jackbooted too many in my life to even consider it.

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Build floor: Centuri Mini Dactyl Estes - Low Boom SST Semroc - Marauder, Shrike, SST Shuttle

In paint: Canaroc Starfighter Scorpion Estes F-22 Air Superiority Fighter, Multi-Roc, Solar Sailer II Semroc Cyber III

Ready to fly: Estes - Solar Sailer II Semroc - Earmark, Groonie Der V 1/2

Eez Okay, Bill. I had to go lookin' for this one myself...

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I may even have to, too.

Sorry for totally derailing your thread, Bill.

Or should I say "jackbooting"?

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