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I was thinking about customizing a car to use a model rocket motor any of yous ever seen it before? Think its worth it? Tell me what ya thinkn

ya theres a few german vids where they did that and well have fun makin it go straight.

yup, seen the German version.
It could be done better, give the car a "guide wire" to run along and it'll leave your sight in no time.

Funny side note, the very first model rocket/plane I built was an F-18.
It launched with the wings tucked inward, instead of popping out the parachute, the final burst was to open up the wings and the plane glides back down to earth.... in theory....

what really happened was I had just 1 of my alyrons (sp?) just a touch tweeked the wrong way. When I fired the rocket engine, the plane burst up in the air about 15 feet - went directly horizontal to the ground and came right back at us at like light speed. We hit the deck, I watch in horror as my first rocket plane was going straight for a concession stand kamakazi style. About 5 feet before the structure, it took a nose dive and burried itself in the ground about 6 inches.

Since that day, my nickname was "One Shot"

CaboWabo wrote: I watch in horror as my first rocket plane was going straight for a concession stand kamakazi style. About 5 feet before the structure, it took a nose dive and burried itself in the ground about 6 inches.

Since that day, my nickname was "One Shot"

That really sucks, was it r/c or free flight? I think it is spelled alieron but it doesnt matter.

it was free flight.
and ya you're probably right, I'm sure I did spell it wrong lol
I was pretty disappointed after the time I spent with it.
It was just dead, noway to bring it back so I bought another free flight with a parachute instead.

Good idea

I started a rocket car a couple of months ago but didn't get far with it. Too many things going on not enough time. This project got put on the backburner until we get some clear weather around here. It's getting clearer and clearer everyday

your soft ! ! !

have you ever seen one of those engins go off sessiz?

Besides these cars, Rocketry is another hobby of mine. Member for numerious years
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A class engin is going to go 30 - 60 ft.
B class 200 - 400 ft
C class 500 - 800 ft

So, what did you buy? and how much room to do you have ?

-nox

I know very little about rockets, I built one in middle school tech class
Maybe you could give me a lil help.
This is the engine I got.



I was planing to do a dual rocket 4 cell dragster. The car would be a 4 cell dragster fully operational and then it would have a seperate attachment with the rockets. The rocket "pack" would have it's own pcb to control the ignition, but I'm not sure how many volts it would take to spark the engines. Fire proofing the body is also still up in the air.
Like I said before this was a lil idea I had months ago and sorta lost intrest becuase we had snow up the wazoo. I have a 1/4mile stretch of 3 laned road where I was planning to shoot it off. The other spots I thought of firing off this rocket was in the downtown area around here where they have plenty of empty wherehouses with large parking lots. Space isn't a problem.

..cool....it's an A class.

man...you got my blood goin... I care for ya bro... I don't want anyone to get hurt.

it should have come with ignitors, take one, jam it up the hole!
Plug it with one of those colored 'stoppers'.
The ignitors take about 3volts to start. (2 AA in series).

-nox

and get ready to hit the deck if need be

and there she goes...


and she went ....809.5 ft.




-nox

I wanna go there and play so bad dude - one day...

CaboWabo wrote:I wanna go there and play so bad dude - one day...

where's da bro? my 24 acres of clear fields? Ride ATVs amungst the White Mountains...

duh - I'd be like a kid there!