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Sunday was very windy on the Black Rock Desert, but I figured the Vertical Assault with a special carbon fiber + aluminum tip nose cone could take just about anything. This was her maiden flight, so I started with the highest impulse motor available in the 54mm diameter — the Cesaroni <a href="http://www.thrustcurve.org/motorsearch.jsp?id=758" rel="nofollow">L935</a> Imax from Canada, eh! I had not seen this propellant fly before, and it has an unusual plume. She screamed off the pad, tilted into the wind as expected and roared out of sight. I was using an RF tracking beacon, but my son's keen eyesight was a better tool for finding her down wind. The computer readout is below, but in short, she pulled 20 g's to go 1,084 MPH and reach 13,711 vertical ft. and about 15K ft. on the diagonal. It accelerated from zero to supersonic 1.86 seconds, within 1,037 feet. Another special treat: my friend Todd and his fellow Burning Man Rangers were up on Old Razorback Mountain adding a time lapse camera to the solar array/battery/ham radio/wifi beacon rig they have on the mountain top. Todd got one launch photo during this Aeronaut launch weekend, and it happened to be this flight (posted below) Launch <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePQe3BZNIy4" rel="nofollow">video compilation</a> (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePQe3BZNIy4&hd=1" rel="nofollow">HD</a>). Burning Man |
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| Source | Supersonic Vertical Assault |
| Author | Steve Jurvetson from Los Altos, USA |
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