Frank Burke's Page

AKA: Frank Burke, "Master Modeler"

Location: Oregon

Certification Level: L1 NAR

Club Memberships: NAR OROC 555

Favorite Rockets: Estes Interceptor and any V-2

Biography:

I'm interested in unconventional rocket boosted radio controlled gliders, primarily of scale subjects.

Personal Home Page: http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/member.php?u=118173

RocketReviews.com Pages:


   

2012-01-11

Interceptor, large upscale rocket boosted radio controlled glider version

Flight

Perfect boost, bumped sticks at about 100' off the rod, very gentle glide and landing. - G-12 RC - Oregon [More]

   

2012-01-06

Bomarc "B" Large Rocket boosted radio controlled glider

Flight

perfect motor for this model, nice long thrust, nice glide and landing. - G-33 - Oregon [More]

   

Bomarc "B" Large Rocket boosted radio controlled glider

Flight

A bit hard for this airframe, flight and glide/landing were fine. - G-40 - Oregon [More]

   

Bomarc "B" Large Rocket boosted radio controlled glider

Flight

insufficient thrust for rail launch - G-25 - Oregon [More]

   

X-15 Large Rocket boosted radio controlled glider

Flight

Perfectly straight boost, nice easy glide and flare for landing.  This is the optimal motor for this rocket.   - G-40 - Oregon [More]

   

2011-12-15

Space Shuttle large rocket boosted radio controlled glider

Flight

Nice flight and glide, high wind limited boost altitude. - E-6 RC - Oregon [More]

   

1998-07-01

Scratch V-1 Buzz Bomb (Scratch)

Review

Well, I just finished one of my more rewarding projects, that being a flying V-1 Buzz Bomb. A friend of mine is into vacu-forming styrene, and made up the body and pulse jet intake on a wood lathe, and molded me some pieces, on the condition I would try to see if I could make it fly. Dry weight ... [More]

   

0000-00-00

Atlantic Rockets V2 (ARCRK) (Kit)

Review

( Contributed - by Frank Burke)  This kit is a really nice sized V-2, for D-12-5 and E-15-7 engines, and possibly lower thrust 24mm F engines.  The kit came nicely bagged, and had a fairly thorough two page instruction sheet, with a third page of drawings. The construction is of ... [More]

   

Apogee Components Micro V2 (Kit)

Review

Apogee - Micro V2 ( Contributed - by Frank Burke)  The kit came bagged nicely with a nice set of instructions. The body and tail tube were a nice quality white tube, but the body tube wasn't cut cleanly. I re-cut the ends and CA'd them for toughness. The tail cone is pre drilled, and ... [More]

   

Apogee Components Micro V2 (Kit)

Review

- by Moira Jean Whitlock Description: Single staged 10.5mm motor (1/4 A through A in Apogee motors) rocket that is a minute scale model of the V2. Pros and cons of construction: All parts specified were there and undamaged. I got the kit less than a week after I ordered it, and it wa ... [More]

   

Frank Burke