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Long, Slow Burn
Archery, motorcycling, water rockets, and other useless hobbies
U.S. Water rockets has published a picture of a release mechanism that I haven’t seen before. Pretty interesting. The link was broken on their site (of course) but I was able to correct it and pull up the image. Take a look:
Very interesting. It resolves some of the drag issues and yet would give a very low pressure release mechanism that wouldn’t result in a lot of rocket wobble on launch. I wouldn’t recommend this mechanism to anyone that isn’t yet onto the FTC design. The drag using 2 liter bottles wouldn’t warrant this gain of drag from the bottle throat modification.
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