01-02-2019, 07:33 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
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Originally Posted by jdbectec
The plans for that were published somewhere. MRM or maybe The Handbook of Model Rocketry.
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The P-Chuter plans aren't in the "Handbook of Model Rocketry." I have owned all seven editions (and I currently have the fourth through the seventh editions), and the plans aren't in any of them. There is, however, a photograph in a few of them (the fourth and fifth editions, at least--I just checked mine) that shows Ellie Stine prepping her P-Chuter for its Bronze Medal Parachute Duration event flight at the 1972 Vrsac, Yugoslavia championships, and:
Looking at the picture, and comparing its fins with the Paradigm-5's fins in the "Model Rocket Aerodynamics' chapter of Stine's "Handbook of Model Rocketry" (see: http://www.apogeerockets.com/educat...wsletter225.pdf ), I *think* they're the same fins (Stine was a consultant to MPC at around that time), but without measurements of the P-Chuter's fins, it's impossible to be sure. Maybe the NAR's journal (I don't know what its title was then), in the article that covered the 1972 Vrsac championships, included plans for the P-Chuter? |