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Robert Boetger's scratch built 2.6" Blue Tube Rocket ready to fly |
Robert Synoski's scratch built hybrid ready 2.6" Blue Tube Rocket |
Matt Van Durme's 3" Blue Phenix v1.0 on an H180W for a successful L1 |
Matt VanDurme's 3" Blue Phenix 2.0 conversion on an I285 Redline |
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Don Mazarella's scratch built 6 inch Blue Tube successful L3 cert flight on an M1500 |
Dennis Watkins O motor made with ARR casting tube and liner w/ ARR supplied chems. 23knS, O-3362, Altitude was 27,500'!
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Ross Scorci's scratch built 6 inch Blue Tube rocket called "Azzurro" Plans on using a Loki M1882 |
Terry Johnson's rocket flying on a 5 grain 38mm "Orange Sunshine" formula taught in ARR's EX100 class. |
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ARR customer flying their 3" Blue Phenix v2.0 on an I161W |
John McAtee's beginnings of his Blue Tube scale Saturn 1B |
 What? A Predator 10-K flying to 10,000 feet on a K motor? It's almost like we planned it like that.. Nice Job Bill Balash! |
 Bill Balash's beautiful Predator 10k prior to first flight. |
Robert Zlystra's Tinkertoy Rocket on a pair of G's |
Robert Zlystra's 4 inch upscale Patriot |
Greg Barron's Upscale Estes Starhawk |
Check out Colin Fitzsimons' gorgeous 4 inch scratch built split fin design! |
Michael Levi's maiden flight of his Predator 10k flying "Au Naturel" on an H123W. Time to take it up a notch! |
Michael Levi takes it up a notch! Same rocket, J415W to 7,400 feet! |
Bruce Harris' Predator Jr. on a big I Wicked White motor, arrow straight flight! |
Ernie Kendler's successful L2 cert to 5,300 feet! |
Ryan Catanesi's "Viper 2.0" 38mm min dia rocket went 8k on an I364FJ. Expects 10-12k on J350W!
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Andres Lathrop preps his baby blue 3" Phenix on the pad with a stout 6 grain 38 motor.
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Mark Hayes' from Stickershock 23's
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Ernie Kendler's stunning Predator 10k |
Michael Di Venti's Blue Phenix on a J365 Sparky! |
NEWS 3/5/10: Ingram High School photo page for their NASA SLI project! Way to go students! Liftoff!
NEWS 1/16/10: Wayne Day and his group of students participating in the NASA SLI program successfully fly their half scale Blue Tube Rocket in preparation for their larger scale version to be flown at NASA Huntsville. See http://www.texanengineering.org/
Mike Fisher's Extreme Blue Tube Test:
NEWS 6/21/09: Mike Fisher from Binder Design takes unreinforced Blue Tube rocket to MACH 3! It ripped a fin off and started to delaminate, but it didn't shred! The rocket wasn't flyable again, but again, IT DIDN'T SHRED! The 1800 degree engine paint bubbled on the airframe too. Apparently people who witnessed the flight said it was the fasted accelerating rocket they had ever seen, and that included some military people who had access to military rockets. Most people never actually saw the liftoff. Quote from Mike Fisher: "It flew in June 2009 at Brothers, Oregon. 64" of 38mm motor, extreme test for the Blue Tube product. It simmed to mach 3, but lost a fin at just under mach 2. A few witnesses were present. It broke mach at around 300 feet and did just under 170 g's. It only managed to get about 20K' due to the fin loss. Avionics were a conformal coated 250g Parrot, and a Beeline TX. Rocket without motor was under 2 lbs, loaded, just under 10 lbs."
Static test of an N-3535 (WOW) sugar based propellant, courtesy of ARR customer Andrej Vrbec from Slovenia: N-3535.WMV
Andrej's small V-2 flying on a sugar motor, precursor to his 1/4 scale V-2 for the N motor tested in the first clip. V-2 Launch
Even NASA static tests motors! MNASA_15.WMV
Static test of an I-280 Orange Sunshine from ARR's first EX100 class.
Blue Phenix construction photos here. Thanx to Matt Van Durme's excellent documentation!
Matt VanDurme's L1 Cert on a Blue Phenix here.
Blue Phenix Construction photos and assembly directions.
EX100 Class photos and videos here.
My 6 inch Blackbird II construction here.