Deploying 2 Parachutes from a Model Rocket without Electronics
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- Launching a model rocket that recovers on two parachutes, one from the middle of the model rocket body and the other from the traditional nose cone area.
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You can use a "piston deploy" for the nosecone/payload section! 😁🤪👍👍🇺🇸
Indeed! A near future experiment for sure
Most excellent! I’ve been into an electronics fix for dual deployment the last few years but this gives another interesting idea. Awesome.
Thanks. This works OK, but I am convinced I can improve on it. Let me know if you try something similar
The 2 chutes are neat - well done Rocket Chief !
And they didn't drift forever!
I didn't realize that my 3 year old granddaughter was watching this video from behind me. When you launched the second time and was obviously happy with the result, she began applauding. Good job!
Well that's awesome! We all shared a little joy
that's very cool; neat idea & solution, well done,
Thanks! It's finicky to load the drogue chute but I have already built a version that is both easier to load and will guaranteed detach the nose cone. Coming next year 😃
How do you know there's any pressure left in the body tube to shove the nosecone off, if the first red drough chute has separated the fin can from the mid-section?
I pack the red drogue chute in a long finger like manner, wrap it in one piece of wadding and ball the kevlar string loosely to hold the chute against the side of the tube. In theory this lets the ejection charge go round it. Am I sure? No. But it did work in the second test flight. I am planning a second version of the rocket with a stuffer tube to carry the ejection charge forward and the red drogue chute packed around it. More to follow😀