High Flyer 38 High Flyer 38 is my 38mm minimum diameter rocket for the I class motors.
Statistics
Length: 52.75 inches
Diameter: 1.65 inches
Nose cone weight:
Forward body tube weight:
Electronics bay weight:
Booster weight:
Motor weight: 1.01 lbs (16.17 oz)
Weight w/o motor: lbs ( oz)
Total weight: lbs ( oz)
Electronics: Adept Rocketry ALTS2 50K Altimeter and T400CW tracking transmitter
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Aerotech 38/600 and CTI Pro38 4G aluminum motor cases.
Available reloads include:
Aerotech: I195J Black Jack, I284W White Lightning, I305FJ Black Max, I366R Redline, and I435T Blue Thunder.
CTI: I285 Classic, I255 Red Lightning, I287 Smokey Sam, I470 White Thunder, and I800 Vmax.
AMW Pro-X: I285 Tamed Tiger, I255 Red Rhino, I287 Blue Baboon, I470 Wild Wolf, and I800 Scalded Tiger.
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Booster section.
Phenolic construction with through the wall .093 G10 fins. Items not shown include parachute and recovery line.
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Ebay section.
Spiral-wound fiberglass construction. G10 Fiberglass bulkheads. 6-32 all-thread rods
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Ebay section.
Items not shown include Altimeter wiring and ejection charges
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Forward body tube section.
Spiral-wound fiberglass construction. Items not shown include parachute and recovery line.
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Nosecone section.
I will be changing this to a conical nose cone due to calculated velocities in excess of Mach 1.
The conical nosecone will be a 5:1 fiberglass one from Performance Rocketry.
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Nosecone assembly complete with Adept T400CW tracking transmitter.
Nosecone is plastic and body tube and coupler are phenolic.
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Complete assembly