Flight Log - 2010-11-13 - Rich DeAngelis's Renegade

The Renegade: It is a very old model built in the 1970s by my brother. The Renegade is a classic '70s kit. Not at all like the modern Renegade; this is your father's Renegade. This is a large, tall, D-powered model, finished in the original catalog paint scheme. Build credits for this kit actually go to my brother. I modified it by adding my usual altimeter payload bay ("Iris"). This adds 4-1/2 inches to the rocket's length and 17 grams of nose-weight. I also replaced the Estes plastic parachute with a better nylon cloth parachute, and use a Nomex cloth instead of wadding. After an Iris test flight with a D12-5, I’m going to load this baby up with a Aerotech E20-7W engine and push the boundaries of rocket power (for me, anyways). This model reaches about 500' on a D12-5, but on an E20, I would expect at least 1000'. (Iris is named after the Greek god of the rainbow. She is a messenger of the gods, linking the gods with humanity.) This rocket has flown higher than William Penn on top of the Philadelphia City Hall building, NASA's VAB building at Cape Kennedy, or the Cologne Cathedral in Germany.

Flight Date: 2010-11-13
Rocket Name: Renegade
Kit Name: Estes - Renegade {Kit} (1271) [1975-1980]
Flyer's Name: Rich DeAngelis
Motors: D12-5
Launch Site: Tanguy Soccer Field
Actual Altitude: 500.00 Feet

Good Flight, light weathercocking, 2 shroud lines seperated and chute tangled, fast decent into tree about 12 feet up. Difficult rescue, damaged parachute and forward launch lug missing. Estimated 500 feet based on other flights with an altimeter aboard.

StageMotor(s)
1Estes D12-5

 

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