12-21-2008, 07:36 PM
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BARCLONE Rocketry
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Mobile, Alabama
Posts: 5,357
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Originally Posted by CenturiGuy
Stability margins are a lot better now, but deployment velocities leave something to be desired. 
13mm motors couldn't even get this thing off the ground, so I had to kick it up to 18mm, add 1.5" to the ST-8 tube, and an SE-14 screw eye. (Apparently that's my "secret weapon" when it comes to inducing [relative] stability.) 
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I just ran a simulation using the C6-7, and got a Dv of 29 FPS even. That's better than the 38 FPS of the C6-5.
Think I'm going to build this one. It's just oddball enough to draw some attention...  |