Der Big Red Max pg.2 |
On top left, Max is just lighting up an AT H97J at NEFAR (photo courtesy of Roger Smith aka Jadebox@TRF), on right kicking hard off the pad at THOR on AT F52T... |
Talk about kicking hard off the pad, at the Nov. 2006 monthly THOR launch I hooked her up with G104T in 29/100 HPR casing... Yowza, she took off like a... like a... hmmmm.... rocket ! Duhh... Very short and hard burn, coasted to about 900' and KA-BOOM ! The full recover harness came flying out, the piston turned into confetti and while I watched the main body come down in a flat spin, the nosecone, shockie, and a brand new 30" chute kept on happily floating out of county... I might have 'slightly' overloaded the ejection charge... Oh well, live and learn... |
...and came up with 'Der Red Deuce' - another bash of Jim Flis' magnificent design. Deuce BT was shortened, an Estes nosecone lost its tip and got rounded off, and three Max style fins were cut out of 1/8" basswood. A baffle was inserted ans upper bt was made removable in case of 'forward crumple zone recovery'. She had a few nice flights, but field conditions limited her to A8-3 power... I also cobbled up a pair of 'Fat Maxes', named Max and Moritz (the blue one) with 18mm mounts. Unfortunately my printer is on a Fritz again so the quality of decals looks rather Chinese.... |
Update Aug -07 The nosecone and chute of my big Max are still decorating a treetop, and our field has been torn up for further soccer/football/baseball development as you can see in the background of some new pix... I got another bout of Redmaxitis and had to cobble up something kinda sorta Maxish... |
Der Red Deuce on left, Fat Moritz in the middle and Fat Max on top... All A8-3 powered |