Group project 5.5" Polecat Thumper airframe built in the Quay West Suites in
authorBdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
Sun, 30 Jan 2011 07:24:59 +0000 (17:24 +1000)
committerBdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
Sun, 30 Jan 2011 07:24:59 +0000 (17:24 +1000)
commit516b345fd424c269838a120c6eae1e67190092ef
tree1b8d2a4629bcc3dd40a5512c1c018e9c28710ae5
parent9d1c15b26dd7ba82e0298810d88350b13a48ebc4
Group project 5.5" Polecat Thumper airframe built in the Quay West Suites in
Brisbane, Australia, during LCA 2011 by Bdale, Keith, Mike Beattie, and
Anthony Towns.  Flown at QRS club launch on an Aerotech J315R 54mm 2-grain
motor.

We believe this was the first time ever that an airframe flew with redundant
TeleMetrum boards!  Test firmware in the sn 56 v1.1 board failed to sync with
the GPS chip for some reason, but both boards apparently fired their charges
exactly when expected.  Sadly, we were stuck friction fitting the nose cone,
and observed the main deploy after the secondary altimeter's apogee charge
fired.  Fortunately, it wasn't that high and the wind wasn't too strong, so
everything was recovered in good condition!
2011-01-30-serial-056-flight-001.eeprom [new file with mode: 0755]
2011-01-30-serial-056-flight-001.telem [new file with mode: 0755]
2011-01-30-serial-250-flight-002.eeprom [new file with mode: 0755]