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- From: cdt@sw.stratus.com (C. D. Tavares)
- Newsgroups: rec.models.rockets
- Subject: Re: some questions on winter flying
- Message-ID: <7985@transfer.stratus.com>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 19:36:32 GMT
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- In article <BxAxz7.LnI@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, jsivier@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Jonathon Sivier ) writes:
- >
- > This winter will be the first one for our recently formed rocket club. We
- > intend to have launches on as close to a regular schedule as the weather will
- > allow. Aside from the weather are there any special problems with winter
- > flying? How does the cold effect the launch system, motors, etc.? How about
- > reloads? Wasn't the freezing of the O-rings the cause of the shuttle disaster?
- > If anyone has any advice I'd like to hear it.
-
- Batteries don't last. Engines can cato (flying them in low temperatures is
- equivalent to their having been heat cycled "above" "normal" temperatures).
- You drop lots of igniters (unless they gety embedded in your numb fingers,
- in which case you don't drop them). Phone wire gets brittle, especially
- if it's steel. Parachutes "set" big-time. Can't address reloads.
-
- Sure you wouldn't rather hold some building sessions instead?
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