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with the launch posse of wandering burners. Best ground support this side of the playa. Thanks!
And special thanks to Big Spoon who took these photos. More of her candid shots below.
8 responses to “Loading the Launch Rail”
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Carefully sliding the teardrop rail buttons down the slot in Rouse’s rail:
One of the burners noted "These rocktets use a non-trivial amount of duct tape."
Arming the HCX and LCX flight computers
Ready to launch:
Space Kitties are watching this launch with keen curiosity for their future missions
The Rouse rail. Tom Rouse also invented the CO2 parachute deployment system that worked like a champ…
and our blast pattern and black char on the rail can be seen.Here are the launch photos and recovery.
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Here is a description
In short, Rouse developed it for high-altitude deployment where the common method of using a black powder charge starts to fail. A side benefit is that the parachutes and electronics do not suffer from the char and corrosion of a big BP burst. It is also a lot safer for large airframes like this one, and my big V-2 where I was using quite a bit more BP than would be found in a shotgun shell. When Rouse saw my V-2 come in ballistic on the second flight from a BP charge failure, he gave me a CD3 to try instead, and I’m hooked…
V-2 before and after photos…. R.I.P.
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