Saturday, September 4, 2010

Falcon



Member: Curt von Delius
Club: AeroPAC
Motor: M1450W
Altitude: 57,000'

Project Notes: The Falcon flying on and KBA/AEROTECH M1450W suffered an R.U.D. event early in it's flight (RAPID UNSCHEDULED DISASSEMBLY).

Both flight computers indicated a max velocity of 3489 fps or Mach 3.2083 at

4296 feet when a fin failed due to extreme aerodynamic heating. The velocity graph on the RDAS showed that it was still accelerating at 16.2 gees when the fins came off at 3.75 seconds. The RDAS also reported that the Falcon achieved a maximum acceleration of 32.3 gees at 1.89 seconds.



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