03-28-2018, 11:55 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
Posts: 6,507
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Quote:
Originally Posted by aeppel_cpm
My earlier thread:
http://oldrocketforum.com/showthread.php?t=14866
I've never tried to trim it for gliding - but I don't think it would.
My younger boy burned through a bunch of B4 and B6 motors in it one day at a club launch. I don't recall if it was TWA or WOOSH. Prep. Fly, Recover. Repeat.
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I saw that one back then--and it's a model of the original Pegasus, no less (whose tail assembly [unlike the Pegasus XL's, whose tail fins are spaced 120 degrees apart]) is a conventional airplane-type one, which is "poorly configured" as a rocket tail assembly, yet your model still flies--vertically, as a ballistic rocket--stably. A gliding Pegasus model, if built larger but lighter (with a lower wing loading), might glide well, if fast. (As numerous YouTube videos show, many of the RC pulse jet model airplanes--low leading-edge sweep subsonic-type delta flying wings and semi-scale Heinkel He-162s are popular pulse jet models--glide quite fast after their engines cut out, but with low sink rates, even just before landing.)
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