Tuesday, July 17, 2012

LDRS 31: Others' Rockets

There were many many many large rockets, and especially weird rockets. Probably the weirdest was the real working snowmobile that flew on an N10000. It went up about 100 feet and flipped over on itself and crashed. This is what was left.








The Black 5 was one of the last flights of LDRS 31. It blew up catastrophically at LDRS 28 and it was back. This time it flew on a bunch of experimental motors. I may be wrong but I believe it was a central N motor, 2 M motors, and 2 L motors. It shredded 1 fin on the way up but maintained a straight up boost and recovered successfully.




This V2 was the largest rocket I've ever seen launch, and the heaviest rocket at the launch. It weighed 505 pounds on the pad. It flew on a central O motor and 2 N motors to about 8000 feet. The main parachutes didn't fully open but as you can see in my pictures, it survived unscathed I believe.





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  1. skycoppJuly 19, 2012 at 10:52 PM

    Black 5 flew on a central N2000, 2x L-1200's, and airstarted with 2xK900's. The onboard video shows the rocket did great until the K's started up. That caused one fin to rip right off. Fortunately the rest of the rocket still continued to fly straight. Because I designed the rocket to have removable fins (for storage purposes) all I have to do is cut and paint another fin.

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    1. allenp3July 20, 2012 at 5:56 AM

      Thank you for the comment and congratulations on a nice launch.

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