That was a whistle rocket captured immediately after takeoff. It has
achieved a flight altitude of 300 m. The payload was about 100 g of
stars. |
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Here is the second one also captured immediately after take off. You can
see the flame is very bright. The noise was also very good. |
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This are those rockets with whistle fuel you can see a little reddish
fuel because of ferric oxide. The cavity inside was 5 mm ID and 15 mm in length.
ID of a tube is 16 mm. These rockets were pressed in a 1500 kg
press.
Potassium perchlorate |
70 |
Sodium Benzoate |
30 |
Fe2O4 |
+3% |
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Here you can see what happen if you choke a central cavity to much. I
use black match and I have secure it on place with NC/meal slurry. There
was a violent CATO with results that you can see. Some of a fuel didn't
burn in an explosion. |
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This is the same tube showed from a different angle. You can see what
would happen if I would be somewhere near. |
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You can see CATO at this picture the upper part is a stick with a
rocket. A rocket was BP /ID 16 mm/N5 mm/C22 mm. It looks like that the
core was too long for that batch of BP. |
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This picture shows the recovered tube from the CATO rocket. You can see
a ruptured tube. |
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Here it is first picture before flight of ID
20/N8/C10 with a fuel of unprocessed mixture with following formula.
Mixture wasn't ball milled only simply mixed as green mix. The tube is 25
mm OD and the clay nozzle. I use my own clay from the land where they use
to dig clay for a bricks. Nozzle is 20 mm long and the upper end plug is
the same size. It is the same design as in 1 lb rockets in BAFN 2.
KNO3 milled in a coffee mill |
16 |
Charcoal 0.3-1 mm |
12 |
Sulfur |
3 |
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And here it is a takeoff of upper rocket. I first have
problems with the blowing off top plug but after rolling enough long tubes
so that the composition was also about 3 cm p from the core those problems
vanished. As you can see on this picture and on a new one it produces very
nice tail. But it seems that I will have to add first increment of fuel
from BP to increase the power in a first second so that this tail will be
in a motion. On the next picture you will se the tail from another
takeoff. The mass of a rocket was 289 g with a 2" shell attached on a
top (shell was 150 g). The height of a flight was approximately 300
m. You can see a rocket before flight with a shell.. |
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