Date: 13/04/2018 19:57:52
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1212581
Subject: Someone wants to take our world record from us.

https://towsonmakerspace.com/2018/01/30/maker-monday-spotlight-geoff-howard-technical-manager-dewalt-engineering/

“Our team is attempting to reclaim the title “World’s Largest Scale Model Rocket.” Since 2009 the World Record belonged to Steve Eves who flew a 1/10 scale Saturn V from Maryland Delaware Rocketry Association’s launch site in Price, Maryland. In March of 2105 an Australian team took the record by flying a full scale V2 rocket. The situation is totally unacceptable! That’s why we are building a ¾ scale Mercury Redstone rocket. It will be 5 feet in diameter and 64 feet tall. We are planning a 1 km altitude flight in April 2018.”

The Australian V2





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Date: 13/04/2018 23:54:03
From: wookiemeister
ID: 1212743
Subject: re: Someone wants to take our world record from us.

most likely they will take that record

the australian team had to go through hoops to get the propellent, the american team can just buy it without very much trouble at all.

shame they didn’t go for the saturn V rocket , its a better looking rocket, the last launch being skylab is much more aerodynamic

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Date: 14/04/2018 06:56:06
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1212798
Subject: re: Someone wants to take our world record from us.

wookiemeister said:


most likely they will take that record

the australian team had to go through hoops to get the propellent, the american team can just buy it without very much trouble at all.

shame they didn’t go for the saturn V rocket , its a better looking rocket, the last launch being skylab is much more aerodynamic

Lovely to hear from you.

The Saturn V is a notoriously difficult build. I like the idea of the Redstone, partly because it was a direct descendant of the V2 and partly because of its simplicity. Pity they’re not trying for 1:1 scale though.

> the australian team had to go through hoops to get the propellent, the american team can just buy it without very much trouble at all.

Excellent point.

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Date: 14/04/2018 19:25:01
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1213023
Subject: re: Someone wants to take our world record from us.

Someone here may also be interested in this.

“April Public Meeting | The Melbourne Space Program: Designing Satellites in Melbourne with Blake Fuller”

Mon, 23 Apr 2018
06:30 PM – 09:00 PM

Interactive Theatre (80|09|12), Building 80, Level 09, Room 12, Swanston Academic Building at RMIT University, 445 Swanston Street, Melbourne

The meeting will be streamed live here https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCStupONLfUf_3xgBnm5BIEQ and then made available on-demand.

ACRUX-1 Project

Named for the brightest star in the Southern Cross, ACRUX-1 will be the first satellite launched by the Melbourne Space Program, with the launch planned for 2018.

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Date: 19/04/2018 22:09:59
From: Kingy
ID: 1214827
Subject: re: Someone wants to take our world record from us.

That is a truck/semi trailer, and a wheat auger. What is it going to do? Pour wheat grains onto the rocket?

How is that going to assist it’s launch?

I call bullshit on that.

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Date: 19/04/2018 22:12:58
From: party_pants
ID: 1214829
Subject: re: Someone wants to take our world record from us.

Kingy said:


That is a truck/semi trailer, and a wheat auger. What is it going to do? Pour wheat grains onto the rocket?

How is that going to assist it’s launch?

I call bullshit on that.

Kinda like Scrapheap Challenge. It’s about repurposing machines for other uses.

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Date: 20/04/2018 05:34:30
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1214847
Subject: re: Someone wants to take our world record from us.

party_pants said:


Kingy said:

That is a truck/semi trailer, and a wheat auger. What is it going to do? Pour wheat grains onto the rocket?

How is that going to assist it’s launch?

I call bullshit on that.

Kinda like Scrapheap Challenge. It’s about repurposing machines for other uses.

The truck/semi trailer is for carrying it from Bendigo to Westmar in Queensland (NW of Goondiwindi). Because it was too big to launch from Bendigo.

The “whear auger” is a crane. Used for lifting the three parts into place.

If you want to call “busllshit”, look at the fins. The fins on the piece removed from the truck are different to the fins on the launch pad. Consider this a puzzle, how were they changed, and why?

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