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Rocketry Product: Quest - Magnum Sport Loader {Kit} (3012)
Repairing and Enhancing the Quest Magnum Sport Loader - Part 1 (2016-02-04)
As a member of the National Association of Rocketry , I regularly get an email newsletter - The Electronic Rocketeer - from Ted Cochran, president of the NAR. In the most recent edition, sent out on ... [Read More]
Repairing and Enhancing the Quest Magnum Sport Loader - Part 2: Verifying Stability (2016-02-10)Click here for Part 1 . In Part 1, I cut the damaged portion of the Quest Magnum Sport Loader off, shortening the airframe by about 1 3/4 inch. The rocket now looks good, despite being shorter, and ... [Read More]
Repairing and Enhancing the Quest Magnum Sport Loader - Part 3: Fixing the Sim Part A (2016-02-27)The shortened simulation of the rocket shows stability to be marginal - only 0.627 caliber. Below, we fix that. Click here for Part 1 This is kind of an addendum to the previous two posts on ... [Read More]
Repairing and Enhancing the Quest Magnum Sport Loader - Part 4: Fixing the Sim Part B (2016-03-18)Click here for Part 1 In the last post , we removed all the Center of Gravity (CG) and mass or weight overrides on the simulation of our rocket. Now we have to find the CG and total weight of the ... [Read More]
Repairing and Enhancing the Quest Magnum Sport Loader - Part 5: Finishing the Sim (2016-03-28)Click here for Part 1 of the series Click here to start with Part A of the rocket simulation part of the series A Few More Details We found the true weight and Center of Gravity (CG) of our rocket ... [Read More]
My First Club Launch - Upcoming (2015-09-14)I haven't launched a rocket in months. Last time it was with the Ivy Tech Rocket Camp I taught in June. The rockets were all really small, I was the only adult, and because of where we launched, I ... [Read More]
Nerves (2015-09-24)I'm nervous about this weekend's upcoming CMASS rocket launch in Amesbury, MA. At first, I was nervous about joining the club. What if I have nobody to talk to at launches? What if they don't like ... [Read More]
When Launches Don't Go As Planned - An Example of Post-Flight Analysis (2016-01-11)If you build your rockets well and prepare them carefully for launch, most of your flights will go well. Sometimes, however, you will have flights which do not go as planned. Any number of things can ... [Read More]
Astron Sprint XL (Clone) - Finished! (2016-03-19)I'm taking a break from my series on repairs, simulations, etc. - all the good stuff I got from the failed flight of the Quest Magnum Sport Loader - to show off my new rocket. After months of working ... [Read More]
Playing With the Flight Simulation (2016-04-04)You can generate an image of your rocket in flight in the Photo Studio in OpenRocket. Now that we've run a first simulation using Estes C6-5 motors, let's try a couple things. What if I'd built the ... [Read More]
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