Beach Shoot #9 - 19 mm Stinger
Date: 2003-11-04
Description
Made with the stinger tooling kit from skylighter. 19 mm ID, 64 mm long, propellant of RP, wax treated cat litter nozzle and bulkhead.
The spin vent was fire-proofed with sodium silicate solution.
Fused with a piece of Zinc effects blackmatch, glued in place with meal-NC paste. The fused tied with cotton string along the side of the tube for neatness.
Launch pin was a large bamboo kebab stick pushed into the sand at a slight angle to direct the stinger down the beach and out to sea slightly.
Comments
Nice Flight.
A very throaty wooosh, a mixture of the spin humming and the doppler shift of the main nozzle output. Some Aluminium effect, some charcoal. Looked great.
It climbed to a respectable height for a stinger style device. We heard it hitting the ground what seemed like a very long time later, but it could not be found in the dark.
Attachments
| title | type | size |
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| Flight Video | video/x-msvideo | 529.458 kbytes |
| Pre-Test Picture | image/jpeg | 48.800 kbytes |