9,460 g's?!? Damn. I gotta get my numbers up. So if you took the weight of 9460 pellets and focused it on one pellet, it wouldn't flatten or deform somehow? Because that's basically what's happening to it. I mean I know there's the barrel and the air pressure supporting it, but still...
First rule of Flight Club is don't talk about the cost of Flight Club! But, since it's the same rule in air gunning, I'll make an exception..
Nice. Wow, wasn’t aware of the $$ rule. I don’t know much about amateur rocketry. It’s nice that engine bodies are rebuildable.
An astute deduction, sir. Generally the local clubs will contact the nearest FAA airport of any consequence and get an altitude waiver. The altitude of the waiver is determined by a number of things. We are fortunate at our club to have one at 13,500' AGL (2.56 miles). Not many flyers even approach that at most launches. But I say "use the space available!" lol I like my rockets to fly high and fast and frequently go above 10,000'. Tracking becomes a challenge at those altitudes, though.
I do use GPS as well as a doppler radio tracker. When flying above 5000', you are above the "surface winds" and the winds up there can be 90 or 180 degrees shifted. I had my girlfriend with me at one launch and we were trying to track the 3" Exocet that just went to 9000' feet. The location on the GPS app showed a spot I swore was impossible, and that it was just showing the nearest cell tower (its backup method for location). She kept telling me to go there and I kept telling her to stop being stupid. EVERY SINGLE rocket drifted to the southwest that day and that's where I was trying to find it. We gave up after an hour and drove back to the launch site. There was a squad car there and a female cop was pulling my rocket out of the back seat! It had landed exactly where the GPS showed, of course. One mile due EAST in someone's front yard.
Well let's look at the force on a typical pellet while accelerating. One G is a force equal to the weight of a pellet.
Yeah, me too. I had the Estes Sizzler starter kit with the launch pad and all that. The first launch was completely unsanctioned and took place in the back yard with the intent to keep it secret as I was under strict orders not to launch without parental supervision. That was a hard secret to keep, though, when the rocket was never seen again.
There is, but hearing it depends on if you're in the "cone" or not. Imagine the rocket's nosecone extending its dimensions to the ground from wherever it is (so the higher up the rocket goes supersonic, the bigger the radius at the base of the cone). Inside it, you likely won't hear it. Outside of it you usually do unless the rocket is real small.
(Hold my beer while I warm up my slide rule...) What is the weight of the person slugged by Chuck? How far does away does he land?
