09-17-2024, 06:57 AM
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When In Doubt, Build Hell-For-Stout
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Join Date: Feb 2020
Location: Central Colorado
Posts: 407
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The Atomic Cap Rocket... An Homage Thereto
This rocket is an homage to those little pot metal cap rockets we used to play with back in the day.
Like way back in the day
Back when you could throw a little metal object, shaped like a bomb, and when it hit it exploded, and nobody even cared.
Before helicopter parenting was a thing and only weirdo's played soccer.
Yeah... getting long in the tooth. I'm betting some of you folks don't even remember these.
I started out building a true to concept scale OpenRocket (OR) simulation. It was so short that stability was an issue, even with considerable nose weight.
Stretching the body made it stable in OR, and adding a launch lug made it even cooler.
Then upscaled that model from BT-50H to BT-60 and made it rear eject with a 29mm motor.
There's something old school Sci-Fi looking about it... which I find appealing.
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