This tall kit is originally supplied with a single long body tube. Since it was damaged in shipping, I cut out the crushed section and spliced together two smaller tubes by making a long, 10" payload section out of the upper third. These tubes had to be sized exactly as the original, because the supplied full-body wrap decals needed to be used. This kit came with a lot of high quality parts, including a foil-lined motor tube, a parachute swivel, cloth-covered shock cord, matching aqua-colored heavy plastic parachute and of course all those decals. It takes 24mm D and E engines. I added an ejection baffle to this rocket.
| Flight Date: | 2013-01-13 |
| Rocket Name: | DEFCON 1 |
| Kit Name: | Quasar One - DEFCON 1 {Kit} |
| Flyer's Name: | Rich DeAngelis |
| Motors: | C11-5 |
| Launch Site: | Penn Manor School Lancaster PA |
| Actual Altitude: | 226 Feet |
I made a second flight with this rocket, but this time I removed the Nomex blanket and used plain-old dog barf for wadding.
The rocket took off well, flew straight up, peaking the acceleration at 10.2 Gs and averaging 5 Gs for the 6/10 second burn – all very normal. It didn’t fly so fast, only reaching 69 mph and coasted for 3.4 seconds to an apogee of 226 feet. This was enough to cause the rocket to become nearly invisible in the fog.
Again the delay charge was a bit short at only 4.3 seconds, which helped this particular flight. The rocket only descended 16 feet in 9/10 seconds to reach 210 feet above ground when the parachute deployed. This time the ‘chute opened cleanly. Immediately the wind took it and it started to drift fast downwind, causing me much alarm, but that only lasted a second or two. The rocket then descended at 10 mph. The flight was over in 18.9 seconds, landing downwind in the grass about 250 feet away.
| Stage | Motor(s) |
|---|---|
| 1 | Estes C11-5 |
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