Thursday, October 22, 2009

Carbon Fiber Sponsor

Fortunately, we recieved a product sponsorship from the generous Braider.com. They have decided to donate a huge amount (10 feet) of fiberglass and carbon fiber sleeves. That will be used to reinforce the pressure vessel(s). Also, we found a new sustainer shape: an FTC tube. FTC tubes are more aerodynamic than 2 liter bottles, but can't be used for a booster. If used as a booster, the high G acceleration will crush the tubing. So, we'll use it for the SECOND stage, when Gs are already tapered down a bit. Whether or not a 4 foot tube or 8 foot tube will be used is still being decided. Finally, we may consider using only an 8 foot tube with carbon fiber to set the single stage world record. We're gonna pwn both records of single and multiple stages.

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