Yea i have experiance in model rockets (G!!!) and yes i know the mosquito isint the best...i'm desinging my own rocket.

Hey, I finally found the series of screenshots I took from a video of my rocket powered 3' styrafoam glider!!

This is what a B4 engine will do to one of those cheap gliders you can find in the grocery store...

OK, the first one, is our first attempt. Um... too much up elevator you think? Check out the bow in the wings!! Also, that thing came within about a foot of my friend!! lol

Next one... this was perfect... went about 150 feet total. Had a pretty sharp climb straight up, then right back down.

Last one... This one looked freaking awesome on video! I put a bunch of powder from other fireworkds in the end of the engine. It did a loop again, but much larger and more graceful, crashed in the grass just out of view with a nice low sounding thud (due to the ejection charge going off right on impact) to which rose a nice thick white cloud of smoke.


There is another one I forgot to get, that shows a fireball shooting out of the front of the engine as the ejection charge went off in flight... about as thick as the fuselage. Next time...


Anyway, I hope you enjoy, and maybe this can help your cause.

Very bad idea--if you are lucky, you'll only get a ticket from the police. It could start a gras or worse, a forest fire, injure someone, fail to release and burn up your plane, or if you are really lucky---"You'll shoot your eye out"!!!!!.
Seriously it's not a really safe idea!!!!It is also prohibited by many local and state laws!

Yo boss, I love the shots of the first one! I see your friend standing there thinking everything is cool..[8D].he's in a safe place...the plane is pointing the other way....sssssshhhhhhhhhzzzzzzzzzzoooooooooommmmmmm. .[X(].and it's right beside him before he knows it!!!! Too funny!!!

lol, you're tellin' me! I thought I was about to die I was laughing so hard!! Ugh, July 4th is only a few months away.

Wingman1331
if your going to do this and it seems like your on a mission, i would ditch the rocket idea and go for something that will actually sustain level flight !
a swept delta wing with plenty of dyhedral would do the job as opposed to a simple rocket shape
all a rocket would do on deployment is gain speed in an arc towards terrafirma !
at least with a swept delta wing rocket it would keep going in the direction it was fired
i too think the chances of a hit would be pritty slim
and safety should be a higher priority than fun when your working with rockets etc
Cadetman

I'm with cadetman... go for the cruise missile

yeah, or make a mini AMRAAM or something, with two sets of fins. or a sidewinder with some stabalizing rollerons at the back. lol

I launch high powered rockets, you should make shure when you lanch it get a 1-2 foot launch rod on your plane and big fins on the rocket also just use small engines like 1/4 A, these are small engines and sometimes the rockets go every where. Also make shure your wires aren't tutching each other or they won't work and make shure you got the igniter all the way in and really held in ( instead of the plugs that come with the engines use masking tape ). For first time testing reasons also launch your rockets right after you pull up also with a recovery sytem on your rocket. always use a recovery system because if it missis the other aircraft you can recover it and use it again. Use a deflector sheild to keep your plane from lighting on fire and aim up.
Good luck and don't be like ralphy

You need bigger fins to make shure it goes strait and also make shure there is space for ejection gasses I shoot off high powered rokes yet im 12. Hint: Im smart, Im on my second collage degree, (just not in english class hahaha!) any ways listen to my ideas.

Thank you, you are some one who has somewhere near my expirience in rockets i got a dual "I"
inder my belt

unless you are fireing the rockets backwards it wont send it out of control

very true- like your idea-
works perfectly

And better yet you can get like AT-10-PT which means it has no ejection charge but it is a mini engine

put in the igniter further doof-until the end

He lives in CA. In 90% of the state you can drive 30 mins and be in the desert where you can freely shoot any gun you want so im sure you can lite a couple toy rockets off. You guys act like he is going to go to the redwood forest and try this.

If the wing tip launches prove to be to unstable do a single rocket right under the fuselage. 1 is better than none.

Good luck.

Thank you!!! yea i can go anywhere... i can do it in my local park and no one would care...(as long as i shot them over the water). BTW i dont need the SCm now we found a way to bypass it. progress is slow but it will eventually pay off.

take a Roman candle and pelt something with little balls of fire

i might do that when i get a Roman candle lol

brownstone ur a genius, acctualy might try that roman candle thing of my mini funtana! muhahahhaahaahaa, gotta go NOW

what did i start lol

Any updates, have you been able to get the system to work? I'm out of school now so I'll start experimenting to see what minimal power I would need to ignite a small rocket engine.

There are a ton of trees out here so I'm not looking to launch anything, but would be great fun in a dogfight or something... need to go vertical to get more energy? Easy, light a rocket and get a quick pound of extra force for about 1.5 seconds... BOOM! there ya go! When the ejection charge hits, it will give the plane a slight speed boost again, and eject the engine out the back and reduce weight... a double positive! lol Or, if you really wanna get tricky... let the other dude get behind you, mount the engine backwards, and you have some nice thrust reversers! lol

A 1/2 A engine on a standard 3 foot foam glider (that you can get at Fred Meyers) is just enough to get one of them about 3 feet off a 55* incline... A's are enough to get the plane about 10 feet in altitude, over about a 30 foot distance before the engine quits.... and a B will about double that. So... I figure if you've got a stryker going level at max power and you can't accelerate anymore... any one of the three options should give it a significant boost, let alone in vertical flight.

Anyway... any luck with the wiring yet?

A guy i was talking to when i bought my stryker was talking about a nice little system he wired up...

he had a few complete strykers worth of parts so he built up two with modified SCMs on them...and instead of the voltage going to a speaker when you got hit...it went to a rocket ignitor placed in a small bag of fertilizer (explosive, and small being like a few teaspoons) packed in next to the reciever/esc....

Said it was fun...and made some space in his garage for a new plane...i would lked to have seen a video of that...no doubt as to who won, you can bet that...

And for the safety police...he said he was on his opwn farm (acres and acres) at the time...so dont get your panties in a bunch...

lol that'd be sweet. those little rocket motors with the ignitors that they come with really take a minimal voltage to work, which is nice. Also, we have several acres at my own home so I wouldn't put anyone elses property at risk. If it stays on the plane, there should be no problem at all... just use some duct-tape for a heat shield! lol

I like the idea of using the SCM... humm....

Interesting ideas... now i must think..... i am working on it all and then one it works its going on my mustang first and ill get a video.

I have a similar thread with photos of missyles and roccets on aeroplanes [link=http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_3255032/anchors_3255395/mpage_1/key_/anchor/tm.htm#3255395]rinonapo forum[/link]