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FlisKits Tumbleweed on Micromaxx
The FlisKits Tumbleweed is a great little rocket that sort of resembles a downscaled Astron Sprite. Instead of using the long-discontinued Estes Series III "shorty" motors, though, it flies their modern-day successors, Estes 13 mm "T" motors. The Tumbleweed really gets great performance from these motors, too; sometimes, a little too much performance, if you know what I mean. When I took my TW out for its first few flights on a very large, well-manicured series of athletic fields, it took me up to an hour to locate it lying on the field after each flight. Partly inspired by that experience, but mostly just to see if I could do it, I decided to try to make an adapter that would allow my Tumbleweed to fly on Micromaxx motors. The model is small enough and light enough to make such a conversion feasible. I did not want to make the mount permanent, though. I still wanted to be able to fly the model on 13 mm motors (like 1/4A's), so I wanted to make a mount that was removable. I also wanted to design it so that it would eject rearward and cause the Tumbleweed to tumble during recovery, just like the model was designed to do. In the following few posts, I'll describe how I did just that.
Mark \\.
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