04-04-2011, 09:05 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: MA, NH
Posts: 1,532
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Originally Posted by Bill
A popular modification is to move the mount back and fly with the F-1 nozzles attached. Additional nose weight, larger fins, clear fins or a combination of these is always necessary to compensate. Too bad there is not a gas with negative mass we can put between the stuffer tube and the outer airframe.
Bill
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If I didn't have to deal with additional fins I might actually consider that... But for this build I may just cheat the mount to between 2 3/4" and 3" instead of 3 3/8". For flight I can compensate with nose weight, and for display I can cut down the spacer ring to make sure the F-1 Nozzles display correctly. The main reason I'd like to do this is to reduce the chance of burning of the inner wall of the rocket by the Aerotech RMS motors...
I still need to do some research and do some thinking though before I go ahead and make the change...
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I plan ahead that way I don't have to do anything right now.
Oh by the way, I'm not here just for the "olde" rocket discussions.
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