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Old 04-09-2022, 07:21 AM
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We have been entirely clear that the only motors allowed for use at the World Championships next year will be NAR certified motors from Estes and Aerotech. Additionally, those motors will be provided by the organizers.


Are you buying one big batch for consistency?

Are US contestants not allowed to bring their own?


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Are you buying one big batch for consistency?

Are US contestants not allowed to bring their own?


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Estes will be supplying one big batch for the contest.

Those motors will be provided to contestants by the contest at the contest.

Motors are marked as being contest-provided prior to being given to contestants.

Contestants will not be allowed to use their own motors.

This is the same as it has been done at all the FAI U.S. World Cup events for the last several years.
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EXCEPT in "S7" ( Scale ), correct ?

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Not correct.

ALL motors will be supplied by the contest.
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Old 04-11-2022, 06:00 PM
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So, back on track, here is a video of a C6 powered Superroc, being launched using a floating head piston, out of a 6 foot tower. The video goes to slo-mo for launch, but the audio does not, so never mind the audio. This was a test flight at home, to see if that model held together using that piston. It flew pretty well.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rzWAm...eature=youtu.be

After all, all these posts about FH pistons, and most in this forum have not seen one work (or even fixed-head pistons).

Here is another test. B6 egglofter using a FH piston. To keep things aligned in the tower, the piston tube had two centering rings, the OD equal to the OD of the egg capsule. Once the model goes out of sight, nothing else to see, so no need to watch to the end. And once again, the audio is screwy.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0DCDO...eature=youtu.be

The vertical camera angle, under the pad but a bit to the side, usually upwind (avoid smoke), is a great way to get video for test flying. Sometimes things go screwy that you'll never see real-time by eye, or even in a side view video.
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George,

Nice videos. And both demonstrate what I indicated back in post #9, that the rockets leave the piston almost immediately after the aft end of the tube hits the piston head. Piston tubes aren't anywhere near leaving the tower before the rocket has already departed.

Not that this discounts the beneficial effect of the the pistons. Just that floating and fixed heads aren't very different in terms of the extra impulse they impart.
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Back on topic . . .

It will be interesting to see how the final standings end up at the WSMC, with all competitors using the same motors, whether a piston launcher is employed or not.

It should be a good indicator of how the different designs perform, on a level playing field.

I predict that the advantage will go to Team USA, since our competitors have the most experience flying USA-made motors, especially the Estes BP motors.

Question . . . What about igniters ?

Are competitors required to use the igniters that are supplied with motors ?
Can they substitute igniters ?
Are home-made igniters allowed ?

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Old 04-11-2022, 10:33 PM
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Are competitors required to use the igniters that are supplied with motors ?
Can they substitute igniters ?
Are home-made igniters allowed ?

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Competitors are free to use their own igniters, subject to the limitations of the NAR and FAI Safety Codes. As most of them use bare nichrome I suspect that they will find the Estes StarTech igniters a revelation.

We know from experience that Estes igniters work well with fixed-head pistons.
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Competitors are free to use their own igniters, subject to the limitations of the NAR and FAI Safety Codes. As most of them use bare nichrome I suspect that they will find the Estes StarTech igniters a revelation.

We know from experience that Estes igniters work well with fixed-head pistons.


Actually, I was thinking about clusters in S7 ( Scale ).

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Actually, I was thinking about clusters in S7 ( Scale ).


Same answer: Estes igniters, AT igniters, and traditional cluster techniques.

Our friends from overseas are experienced flyers, and most of the top-tier S7 competitors are already using Aerotech motors.
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Not that this discounts the beneficial effect of the the pistons. Just that floating and fixed heads aren't very different in terms of the extra impulse they impart.

Some might note that in the B6 eggloft video, you can see micro-clips falling down inside the tower, after the piston begins to move up and the clips slide off the external wires of the ignitor as intended. I never got around to trying to use internal ignition in a Floating Head Piston (Well, I could not devise a good way to do that, without being a more precision and time consuming prep than I felt comfortable doing, over and over reliably). And as a result, there's a bit of pressure loss as a result (slight gap between engine and tube due to ignitor wire thickness up along the side).

While my Teammate Chan Stevens has his system nailed down for a floating piston head with internal electrical connectors. But he has to do a very precise and unforgiving prep to make it work, without accidentally unplugging the internal leads to the connectors in the piston head during the process. He does it well.

By contrast, with fixed head pistons, since around 1977 or so I'd been using a very successful internal ignition electrical system that many people copied, later vastly improved years later by SIP sockets (though that was also something that a lot of people arrived at independently, too).
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