This is a barebones design. 54mm class airframe with a 38mm motor.
Kwiksilver features a G12 Fillament wound fiberglass airframe AND nosecone from Performance Rocketry. She has 6061-T6 aluminum fins, centering rings, and bulkheads that i cut with a plasma cutter. She has an avbay/coupler of aluminum from part of an old, unusable 54mm motor case.
Kwiksilver sports the 38/1320 motor from Rouse-Tech , flying the AeroTech J510W to about 10,500 feet.
She is dual deploy, with a Featherweight Raven2 and a Perfectflite stratologger.
| Flight Date: | 2013-07-15 |
| Rocket Name: | Kwiksilver |
| Flyer's Name: | Ryan Catanesi |
| Motors: | i357t |
| Launch Site: | Black Rock Desert, NV |
| Actual Altitude: | 2,500 Feet |
L1 cert. DD with motor eject at apo. main at 1024.
| Stage | Motor(s) |
|---|---|
| 1 | Aerotech I357T |
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