02-18-2019, 11:26 AM
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SPEV/Orion wrangler
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Atlanta, GA
Posts: 2,645
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Quote:
Originally Posted by teflonrocketry1
Roy,
What motor did you fly your Mach 10 clone on? Did you use a lot of ballast weight in the belly pod and main nosecone? Do you know how much overall the final prepped model weighed?
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This flight was a B6-2 (I've only flown it on C6-3 before). Last time I flew it was over five years ago. It was built to specs with a real Centuri ST-16 and ST-7, a Semroc ST-5 with Semroc balsa cones, and the main nose cone is an original Centuri orange plastic two-piece cone with nothing inside.
I did not fully witness the flight as it was flown by mistake (wrong pad selected on the panel). As I mentioned the glider *did* transition, reaching the ground at the end of the transition.
No idea on the mass, but it is unpainted. As I also said, it has flown before on C6-3 and glided fine, but lost altitude in the transition (as it did this time).
Edit: it was built maybe eight/nine years ago and I don't remember if there's any ballast in the pod! but there is none in the nose cone.
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