Sirius – Part 2
There was plenty of time last Saturday afternoon to get some rocketry work done. And things are progressing nicely-the fin can and baffle are completed and assembled. I need to chop my airframe and make my fin slots now, and the bottom of the rocket will be finished. As soon as my RedArrow shipment arrives, I will be able to balance this thing–I’m afraid that I’ll have to add some nose mass to pull my CG higher. I’ll be working on some graphics pretty soon. If anyone has any good ideas for decal paper, lemme know. Anyway, if you want more of a pictorial walkthrough on the work so far, click the Sirius link on the main...
What more can I say? It’s just one way!
It is truly paradigm shattering when empirical evidence confronts one to up-end a fully-realized meme. What is more well known than the epic battle between Galileo and the Catholic Office of the Inquisition? How he was tried and would have had a death sentence executed* for teaching that the Earth was not the center of the Universe in contradiction to the teachings of Catholicism at the time! How heroic he was to stand there, alone in his principles, and face the wrath of narrow-minded mental midgets, steeped in their religion and world-view–who were simply unable to see things any other way. What a triumph Science made that day! What if I told you that it didn’t happen…well…anything like that? What if I told you that the Copernican...
Sirius
Well…as it sits on our kitchen counter it doesn’t look like much. But, you’ll have to trust me. It will butterfly into an extremely cool rocket. It is completely custom designed using the fantastic RockSim 8.0 program. It will fly on a 29mm Aerotech reload, and hit about 1660ft on an F40. Which is about where I wanted it. I’m using all LOC/Precision parts that I had on hand from an aborted project to kit-bash an Estes Honest John. Anyway, I still need to order a few more bulkhead plates, a third centering ring, and an Ogive nosecone. Theorhetically, I will be making this rocket baffled (no wadding) and zipper-proof. We’ll see how it works out for me What you see here is, left to right, a tube coupler...
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