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Interesting flight from Saturday
WSR had a launch scheduled for Saturday, but on Friday night I couldn't psych myself up for all the necessary driving to get there. When Saturday rolled around and it was just beautiful, my psyche repaired itself. I did glue launch lugs on several potential candidates for a first flight in between cutting the grass on Friday, one of them being the Estes Rigel 3 clone that I've been working on for five or so years. I loaded it with a C6-0/C6-7 combo and took it along on Saturday. I think it was my third flight on the day. (The first was one of my BT-55 Satellite Interceptors on an E9-6. Maybe a hole in that chute would have been a good idea.) The Rigel 3 was one of the flights I tried to film using my phone and the slo-mo function, so I have a pretty decent launch video and audio of the staging occurrence. Not real sure how to go about editing it, but the flight was quite impressive, and my first two-stage flight in several years. The booster broke a fin when it cartwheeled in, but it's an easy fix. The sustainer looked like it got around 700-800', then started following the same recovery path as the SI had. It was high and appeared to be heading for the trees across the road, but at the last moment the breeze backed off and dropped it just at the edge of the field. Now that it's flown, I think it gets greenlighted for paint and decals, so the next launch will look less ghostly.
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Bill Eichelberger NAR 79563 http://wallyum.blogspot.com/ I miss being SAM 0058 Build floor: Estes - Low Boom SST Semroc - Marauder, Shrike, SST Shuttle In paint: Canaroc - Starfighter Scorpion Centuri - Mini Dactyl Estes - F-22 Air Superiority Fighter, Multi-Roc, Solar Sailer II, Xarconian Cruiser Semroc - Cyber III Ready to fly: Estes - Solar Sailer II Semroc - Earmark |
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Pic because I figured out how.
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Bill Eichelberger NAR 79563 http://wallyum.blogspot.com/ I miss being SAM 0058 Build floor: Estes - Low Boom SST Semroc - Marauder, Shrike, SST Shuttle In paint: Canaroc - Starfighter Scorpion Centuri - Mini Dactyl Estes - F-22 Air Superiority Fighter, Multi-Roc, Solar Sailer II, Xarconian Cruiser Semroc - Cyber III Ready to fly: Estes - Solar Sailer II Semroc - Earmark |
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The Rigel 3 is my favorite Estes multi-stager.
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Seemed kinda piggy, but performed very nicely, even in a stiff breeze.
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Bill Eichelberger NAR 79563 http://wallyum.blogspot.com/ I miss being SAM 0058 Build floor: Estes - Low Boom SST Semroc - Marauder, Shrike, SST Shuttle In paint: Canaroc - Starfighter Scorpion Centuri - Mini Dactyl Estes - F-22 Air Superiority Fighter, Multi-Roc, Solar Sailer II, Xarconian Cruiser Semroc - Cyber III Ready to fly: Estes - Solar Sailer II Semroc - Earmark |
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One of the reasons I like it is due to it being "piggy"; easy to see the staging occur even on a "C" and easy to recover the booster.
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Speaking of the booster, it came in spinning, hit hard, and broke a fin. Easy fix, but it has a lot of bulk itself.
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Bill Eichelberger NAR 79563 http://wallyum.blogspot.com/ I miss being SAM 0058 Build floor: Estes - Low Boom SST Semroc - Marauder, Shrike, SST Shuttle In paint: Canaroc - Starfighter Scorpion Centuri - Mini Dactyl Estes - F-22 Air Superiority Fighter, Multi-Roc, Solar Sailer II, Xarconian Cruiser Semroc - Cyber III Ready to fly: Estes - Solar Sailer II Semroc - Earmark |
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I don't recall my booster doing that, but I did have to put some tiny weights at the bottom of the fins to get it to tumble.
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When in doubt, WHACK the GAS and DITCH the brake !!! Yes, there is such a thing as NORMAL, if you have to ask what is "NORMAL" , you probably aren't ! Failure may not be an OPTION, but it is ALWAYS a POSSIBILITY. ALL systems are GO for MAYHEM, CHAOS, TURMOIL, FIASCOS, and HAVOC ! |
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