08-01-2010, 01:27 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
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Originally Posted by rocketguy101
Thanks for the clone info! She is showing some battle scars...and you are right about altitude, this little rocket really screams! I put a streamer on it.
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You're welcome, and thank you for posting the picture of yours! Other than in the "group picture shots" in the 1972 & 1973 Centuri catalogs, I've never seen a photograph of a built MX-774 kit.
According to the kit instructions, it could even use nose-blow recovery safely for flying from small fields or on windy days, but I'd use a streamer on mine as well. (The English model rocketeer Stuart Lodge wrote in his book "The Model Rocketry Handbook: 21st Century Edition" that "it's a shame" that streamers are only used for the smallest and lightest rockets "...because streamers are safely able to recover rockets over 50 g in weight and will normally keep the device within the confines of the field...") |