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Estes A3-4T | My first flight of the day, and with other people commenting about B and C motors, I had to show just how much altitude one could reasonably get with a lowly A motor. So up goes the Ninja-B, and with the boattail, as usual, I was wishing for a longer delay. Deployment was well before apogee, but otherwise nominal, and I easily tracked the rocket and (after threading through the blackberry brambles) recovered with no damage. |
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I didn't want to send the Alpha too high, so I loaded it up with the last 1/2A6-2 in my box. Short burn, short coast (though it could have used another second's delay anyway), and reasonably close recovery. Not much to say about this small a motor in a "normal" rocket. |
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I still have a huge number of A8-5s to burn -- I really need to get the cluster mount finished for the Betty-X and start burning those motors lofting eggs. Meantime, this was the sort of boring, nominal flight you expect from a rocket design virtually unchanged after more than 35 years of production. Of course, an Alpha always wants long delays... |
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One good flight deserves another -- and the Alpha actually makes A
motors fun and interesting, so up with another, and the same sort of nominal,
boringly perfect flight resulted as always.
I spent most of the rest of the day helping another flier who was having great troubles with Copperheads get a couple good flights -- and collected a really nifty sunburn in the process. Guess I need to start remembering the sunscreen again. |