08-11-2022, 12:10 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
Posts: 6,507
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Quote:
Originally Posted by astronwolf
A report of a weak ejection charge on YORF is not like Estes "careening from one guard rail to the other." How you exaggerate...
This weekend we're hosting a Cub Scout pack. I will witness ~60-80 A8-3 powered flights. I'll let you all know what the outcome was.
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Having had a few rockets partly RUD-ed (and ruined, by split BT-5 seams) by the overly-powerful mini motor ejection charges (even a Quest Starhawk--designed for 18 mm A6-4 motors, which I flew with a 13 mm motor adapter mount--had its interior quickly well-"toasted"), I wouldn't say it was "exaggeration." Even 13 mm boost-glider competition flyers reported split-open BT-5 motor pod body tubes back then.
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