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Originally Posted by Aeronautical
Nice, I like them, you use a program to design any of your rockets?
And I've been doing rocketry for years, but I'm still not as familiar with all the different models, you people obviously know alot about these things. Is there a book that I could get that has all the different estes models and other company models?
ANd just out of Curiosity, how high should those two quickie rockets you posted fly CPMcGraw, the pub and the one along the lines of the Estes Interceptor and Quest Intruder, I think it's the scorpion.
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Yes, I use Apogee's RockSim v8 for my design work, as do some of the others on this forum. All, or nearly all, of the designs you see in this thread were created with RockSim. You can get a 30-day fully-functional demo from
www.apogeerockets.com and study what we can do. There are some limitations in the program, but we've found a number of work-arounds...
I think we have a FAQ with all of our "favorite links" listed, but for historical data on Estes and Centuri, you can't do better than the Ninfinger Files (sounds like a SciFi TV show, doesn't it?) located at
http://www.ninfinger.org/~sven/rockets/rockets.html . This is the best repository for catalogs anywhere. Sven has almost every catalog from Estes since 1960, only missing one or two at best.
The best textbook reference I can suggest for general rocketry design and flight is the classic
Handbook of Model Rocketry by G. Harry Stine (currently in its seventh editiion, with additiional editing by Bill Stine). Every model rocket enthusiast should have a copy in their library.
Which two "quickie" designs are you referring to? I've recently posted several in response to some specific issues, such as the Centuri Screaming Eagle and the Estes Hi Flier...
You ask about the Scorpion, and that wasn't exactly a "quickie". It's been some time back since I posted it. In fact, now that I go back and look at it, I can see that it needs a "remake". See attached image, below. The simulation runs achieved 200' on the B6 and 500' on the C6. The parachute deployment speeds are too high, now that I've looked again...