[Rockets] [RocketsNW] 10/17 Brothers PSAS Launch Report. Roll control success!

[Keith Packard]

On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 22:09:01 EDT, Mfreptiles at aol.com wrote:

> Seriously cool.

Thanks! 

> That's some exacting machine work.

The two guys who built most of the airframe, Dan Kirkpatrick and Dave
Camarillo, are serious ME types with plenty of machine tools between
them. Hardening the custom 4340 steel bearings was a new adventure for
them, but it turned out amazingly well.

> How high did it go?

4850m max height, 380m/s max speed. That on a CTI N2850 motor, which may
let you deduce that the liftoff weight was on the beefy side :-)

-- 
keith.packard at intel.com
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