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To: snooker
They do appear to be getting a mite large. I guess when they get to the size of a scud maybe we should limit the size also.



Is this bigger than a scud?

The name of this rocket is "Down Right Ignorant". It was launched in 1993 at LDRS XI.

The rocket was powered by 1 "O" motor, 5 "L" motors, and 8 "K" motors. The Estes kits sold in stores are rated as A, B, C, and D motors, each consecutive letter having twice the total power output as the previous. This makes an "O" motor 16,000 times more powerful than an Estes A motor.

The rocket at a wieght of 800lbs reached an altitude of 3,500 feet and was sucessfully recovered. Even though it doesn't seem like it, 3,500 feet isn't all that high. Smaller rockets powered by a single O motor have gone beyond 35,000 feet.

All that being said, these rockets are nothing like Scud missiles in that they have nowhere near the range of a scud missile. In order ot equal the range of a scud, a very large and very expensive motor would have to be custom made. Something like that is well beyond the scope and capabilities of the materials available to hobby rocketeers.
62 posted on 03/11/2003 12:58:28 AM PST by VRWC_Member428
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To: VRWC_Member428
The scud reference was joke.

snooker
65 posted on 03/11/2003 6:23:00 AM PST by snooker
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