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[cplmac]

Expiremental fuel 4lb strobe tooled no nozzle to glitter xettes

4lb BP w/Ti to charcoal xettes

4lb strobe tooled BP w/Ti to 4" cylinder salute, CATO

[Andrew]

very nice.

There is a frame in the 3rd one that is quite interesting.

[cplmac]

The grassy area of the field you see in that frame is 90 meters across, from treeline to treeline. The rocket itself is just over 100 meters from the deck in the foreground.

[madtrickdotcom]

I LIKE THE 2ND ROCKET VERY NICE, WHAT DID YOU USE?

[paul]

Yeah, I like all those videos. Especially the "4lb BP w/Ti to charcoal xettes"

I guess these are core burners? What type of black powder (and composition etc.) is used ?

[ITCHI]

Great videos, nice dark, cloud covered night.

[cplmac]

Yeah the last few days has been pretty stormy, lots of cloud cover. Tonights rocket is gonna be under cloud cover as well. The fuel was 75/15/10 homemade meal with about 15% Ti Sponge 18-30 mesh and 5% whistle fuel. It was pressed on 4 lb strobe rocket tooling with one increment of clay for the nozzle. Tonight's motor is 90% homemade meal same ratio as above and 10% Ti Sponge same as above with a little salute head and 10 blue stars glued to the stick. I'll have the video up tonight or tomorrow.

Edited by cplmac, 04 April 2007 - 01:30 AM.

[cplmac]

Like an idiot I forgot about the bottom shot, so the video got cutoff before the report which was pretty good.

4lb BP w/Ti and blue star tail

[cplmac]

I liked the stars glued to the stick enough to make another. This one is basically the same rocket, but this time there were also some dragon eggs, most of which didn't light, a 3" gold glitter ball shell I made, 2 3/4" blue xettes, and a 1.25" glitter comet. All but the 3" gold glitter ball shell was glued to the stick.




FrankenRocket

[cplmac]

3lb BP w/Ti to report with green organic on stick at dusk

[Wyvern]

Wow, that looked a bit close for comfort

[cplmac]

I was about 100 yards away when I started filiming, by the time the rocket was done homing in on my position it was more like 20 yards. It was such a slow meandering rocket there was no real sense of urgency to seek cover or move at all really.

[cplmac]

2lb whistle rocket with three 1.25" gliiter comets on top

3lb strobe tooled whistle with 2.5" TT xette on top, I think the second break was the xette, blew itself out

[parabolic]

Wow, nice rockets cplmac...

I loved the low 'whine' of the 3lb rocket as it went up, do they always make a low noise like that because the nozzle is bigger?, that was my fav one, and id love to make one like that.

[cplmac]

I think it is a combination of things with the 3 pound rocket, I tool it with strobe tooling so the spindle is about twice as long as a standard whistle spindle, it is a 1" ID which lowers the pitch a hair from the 7/8" ID 2lb whistle. The fuels were the same, so those are probably the only two things having a real effect on the sound. I'm gonna make a 4 pounder tonight on the strobe tooling, should be a real screamer. Gonna cap it off with an inch or so of chlorate whistle delay, that will definately be a curdling whistle.