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I read the Peak of Flight article. I don't see the induction stabilization method being of practical use as a kit. Also I am not sure now many finless full size rockets would allow large openings in the side of the body and still be scale in outline and appearance.
I think a Minute Man type rocket would make a cool kit if it can be done without using some type of fins. So if you can design, build and test fly a scale model one that is stable all the time I would like to see it in action via a video. If Estes ever kits one of the new generation of space rockets now flying, having a working model to do some test flying would come in handy since most of them have little to no fins on them. John Boren |
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Great read!
Blackshire,
I enjoyed the Talos missile info... however, the life on board stories by the officer and especially the enlisted man are great! Go Navy! Bob p.s. I love the pink pages :-)
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I played around with gas-dynamic stabilization and it does work. The method of cutting holes in the main tube is probably the method under consideration here for a Minuteman model. All I can say is it is perfect for the person who wants their rocket to have the "well used" look. It scorches the heck out of the tubing, bubbles the paint, etc. My prototype (of no vehicle in particular - just a test model) looked like garbage after only two flights. It might be less destructive with a large diameter (e.g., BT-80 or more) kit. I never tried a larger model. Mine was only BT-55 with an 18mm motor. |
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Sounds like a good candidate for a FAF (fire and forget) missile.
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Regarding Frognbuff's comment about these models' exteriors becoming singed, with the paint finish bubbling from exposure to the exhaust heat, M. Dean Black probably encountered the same problems, because his finless model designs all have large diameters with respect to their model rocket motors. (His 18 mm motor-powered models use BT-80 body tubes [or other tubes of similar diameter], and he uses 2.6" diameter tubes for 24 mm motor models.) This ensures that the "bypass ratio" (to use turbofan terminology) is high enough that the combined rocket exhaust/entrained air exhaust stream is relatively cool. In addition: While I'd like to try such models myself, I no longer have a rocket flying field (it reverted to the foundation that owns it after its tenant user died, and it's no longer accessible). Plus, I now have so many medical appointments (no fewer than five last week, and another four this week--it never ends...) that I have little time or energy for building rockets anymore, and I have a gnawing sense that this state of affairs won't change.
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Thanks for sharing Jason.
I added to my files. Gettin cold here now! |
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Go Navy, indeed! Another site--whose name I can't recall (I viewed it on a previous computer)--covered how the Project Vanguard satellites (the 20" ones, in particular) were actually hidden-in-plain-sight test vehicles for several Navy spy satellites, which were 20" diameter cylinders with hemispherical ends (those hemispherical ends being flight-proven Vanguard hardware). It was long a puzzle as to why the official U.S. IGY (International Geophysical Year) *civilian* satellite project was run by the U.S. Navy, but it was the first hidden-in-plain-sight spysat project (GRAB was another ostensibly scientific satellite series, which was actually an electronic "ferret" spy satellite project).
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"Full-ascent stable" finless model rockets (info & links)
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The University of Maryland Oriole sounding rocket of the late 1950s (it's covered on pages 582 - 584 *here*, in a PDF scan of the whole book! [see: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/...19790011995.pdf ]--it's Joseph Adams Shortal's book titled "A New Dimension--Wallops Island Flight Test Range: The First Fifteen Years") had a slender, finless, two-diameter dart that was boosted by a Loki rocket motor. The Oriole’s finless, two-diameter dart was stabilized (in coasting flight, after drag-separating from the spent Loki motor) just as a Minuteman finless scale model would be stabilized in coasting flight, after its model rocket motor ceased thrusting (the motor would provide gas-dynamic stabilization while it was thrusting). Richard Morrow's book "Small Sounding Rockets" also covers the Oriole (see: http://traxellabs.com/smallsounding....org/Oriole.jpg and http://www.aeroconsystems.com/liter...ing_rockets.htm ). The narrower forward section of the Oriole's dart was solid metal and acted as forward ballast for the wider, hollow rear section of the dart, which housed instruments or chemical release payloads. [NOTE: Both Shortal's and Morrow's books are chock-full of scale data on many different sounding rockets and meteorological rockets, and (in Shortal's book) on rocket-powered aerodynamic test vehicles and even some missiles.] I hope this material will be helpful.
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