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Team db Rockets:
126 meter volgens clifford heats simulator.
raket: tachyon-1

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Teamdbrockets wrote:Team db Rockets:
126 meter volgens clifford heats simulator.
raket: tachyon-1
Zeer aardige! Very good!

I was impressed with the rigid fins: there was no fin flutter at all. The rocket seemed to pitch over into a parabolic flight quite quickly, was there a lot of wind?
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Teamdbrockets wrote:Team db Rockets:
126 meter volgens clifford heats simulator.
raket: tachyon-1

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Thnx!
and no there was no strong wind!
the camera was taped at the outside of the rocket .
the weight of the camera is the problem.
but there was no parachute needed.
the rocket goes horizontal down.
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i have more vids' on my site:
teamdbrockets.skynetblogs.be
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Teamdbrockets wrote:Thnx!
and no there was no strong wind!
the camera was taped at the outside of the rocket .
the weight of the camera is the problem.
but there was no parachute needed.
the rocket goes horizontal down.
Ah yes, I see. So the Clifford Heath simulator probably expects all the weight to be on the centre line of the rocket. It may give you a higher estimated altitude than you achieved in practice. A lovely flight, though!

The rocket rolls quite a lot on the way down. Are you worried that the camera will roll to the bottom just before impact, and perhaps be damaged?
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no.
the rocket comes slowly down.

do you know the belgian record altitude?

i want to know so i can beat it :wink:
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Teamdbrockets wrote:Thnx!
and no there was no strong wind!
the camera was taped at the outside of the rocket .
the weight of the camera is the problem.
but there was no parachute needed.
the rocket goes horizontal down.
We call that type of recovery a "side glider" We used that recovery system on our X-4, X-5 and X-6 rockets. The drawback that we discovered with that system is that the rocket spins on the way down. In your video the rocket does the same thing producing a "sky-ground-sky-ground" view. This would ruin any video that was taken. (back in 2003 the cameras were not as powerful) and were slower to adjust to light and dark conditions which would cause the camera to "get behind" with the light and dark adjustments (it would adjust to the darkness of the ground just in time to look at the bright sky and vice versa). We also had problems with the local wind currents destabilizing the side gliding rocket and sending it into a nosedive.

Nice Avatar. Is that an animated GIF?
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thnx 4 the info!
and yes thats an old ani gif i found on the internet a few years ago. :D
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Teamdbrockets wrote:thnx 4 the info!
and yes thats an old ani gif i found on the internet a few years ago. :D
Okay. Thanks for the info. It just would have been cool if you could make animations that well. No problem!
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U.S. Water Rockets1 wrote:
Teamdbrockets wrote:thnx 4 the info!
and yes thats an old ani gif i found on the internet a few years ago. :D
Okay. Thanks for the info. It just would have been cool if you could make animations that well. No problem!
With Paintshop Pro 5 that has the Animation Shop, alows you to make animations as gif icons, I know how to do that
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got a new altitude record!
130 meter!
with a 1,5 liter rocket!
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now i set the class c record i have mi own duration record:

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- Altitude record : 140 m.
- duration record : 25 seconds.