| COSROCS Large Rocket project. The idea here is for COSROCS, as club effort, build a large rocket - as in NAR/Tripoli Level 3 performance. The purpose is to successfully fly and recover the rocket, but also to "show off" the rocket at public events. This effort will start with everyone individually building a scaled down version of the final club rocket design (mid power/Level 1 rocket) working together at build sessions to share design and construction techniques and advancing our skills. We would then combine these skills and work together on a larger Level 2 capable rocket, and subsequently build our COSROCS large scale rocket project. By the time we're finished we will have, hopefully, expanded our skill levels, increased the number of members with high power certifications, and we'll have a rocket that's probably too big for the trailer. | ||||||||
| So far, the following activities have occurred. A proposal was made to build a ring fin design, which will be unique, challenging and impressive when we set it up for static display. Ernie Puckett created two ring fin design versions, using RockSim. These two designs are mid power/Level 1 capable. He provided me hard copies and I scaled down these plans, built a few different sizes and flew them on A through E motors at the last few launches. | ||||||||
| Recently, I built one of Ernie's designs to scale and flew it at the Spring Fling on a G motor. The rocket flies well and is definitely unique looking on the pad. The next step is to make the designs available for everyone and find out who would like to participate in this effort. Post your thoughts on this on the Yahoo email thread. Do any members have any experience working on this type of project? |  |
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