Saturday, June 29, 2002
Flying AGAIN!
A 90+ degree day here in Minnesota, and I'm sticking with my goal of flying a rocket every week this summer. I suspect that I'll eventually be stretching this to an AVERAGE, that is counting the fact that today, and my first week, I launched two DIFFERENT rockets will count as AT LEAST one rocket launched each week.
Anyway, today I launched the Freedom 7 II again - it launches well, but splits apart almost immediately. Still it recovers fine and is ready to launch again. Here it is, taking off: 
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The other rocket, technically called the "Mini Meanie" or something, but what I call "Pascal's Wager" launched fine... but... it split apart and needs to be rebuilt. I didn't get a picture of the launch, but here it is (sort of) with me (sort of) in front of my house:
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posted by Joel 4:47 PM
Monday, June 24, 2002
Plans, continued...
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| / '. |
| ,''''' |
| | | |
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| | | |
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| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| |____| |
| | | ^ recovery charge |
| | | /| \ separates sections |
| |__| | two sections tumble |
| `'' | for recovery. |
| |
| '''''| |
| || | |
|aunch || | |
|lug || | ,''''i''''''''''''''''''''''''| |
| '| | | | |__ __ _ _ __ __ _ | |
| | | | | '_ \/ _` | ' \/ _` | | |
| | | | |_.__/\__,_|_|_|_\__,_| | |
| | | | | |
| ,-'| +-..._ | Mercury-Redstone Refit | |
| +' | | | `-----------------------------' |
| ...---:''| ---..| |
| | | _engine slides in |
| | | ''''' |
`...........................................................|
posted by Joel 12:51 PM
Ship Plans:
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| || |
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| || __ |
| / | _,..---''' capsule |
| / '. and escape rocket |
| ,''''' glued together |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | Bulkhead added |
| | | and two tubes fit |
| '''''| ----'''''together with inner |
| || | cylinder |
|aunch || | |
|lug || | ,''''i''''''''''''''''''''''''| |
| '| | | | |__ __ _ _ __ __ _ | |
| | | | | '_ \/ _` | ' \/ _` | | |
| | | | |_.__/\__,_|_|_|_\__,_| | |
| | | | | |
| ,-'| +-..._ | Mercury-Redstone Refit | |
| +' | | | `-----------------------------' |
| ...---:''| ---..| |
| | | _engine slides in |
| | | ''''' |
`...........................................................|
posted by Joel 9:00 AM
Sunday, June 23, 2002
To see more pictures of the latest addition to MrKlingon's space fleet.
posted by Joel 8:36 PM
New launch www.spacecraftmodels.com paper model adapted to real flight!
posted by Joel 8:33 PM
