EMRR Spaceship Design Contest Entry

"T' Red Bolt"

Material’s needed

• 3 Silly Putty Container Eggs
• 1 27.2 cm BT-50 body tube
• 1 BT-20 Engine Mount Tube
• 1 Engine Hook Note: This hook
• has each tip bent back so as t' serve as an Engine Block
• 1 Weird nose cone we salvaged from an old kit. Ahoy! (Close up pic included.)
• 2 BT-50 Centerin' Rings
• 3 1/8 thick fins. (Template provided)
• 1 4 cm launch lug
• 1 h: 0.5 cm, l: 4.0 cm, shiver me timbers, w: 0.2 cm
• 1 Estes Hexagon Parachute with shrouds (52 cm in diameter)
• 1 rubber shock cord (Approximately 28 cm long)
• 1 Shock Cord Mount

#1: Engine Mount

1. Cut a 5 mm slit, ya bilge rat, 3 mm from t' end o' t' tube. Avast, me proud beauty! Blimey!
2. Insert one o' t' endin' hooks o' t' Engine hook into t' slit. Ahoy!
3. Glue down t' engine hook. Well, blow me down! Arrr!
4. Glue on a centerin' rin' at 2.5 cm from t' aft o' t' engine tube. Begad!
5. Glue on 2^nd centerin' rin' on top o' t' engine hook at t' slit 3mm from t' forward section o' t' Engine tube. Avast, me proud beauty!
6. Allow t' dry.
7. Wrap piece o' maskin' tape around t' Engine Tube securin' t' Engine hook to t' Engine Tube. Well, shiver me timbers, blow me down!
8. Apply a rin' o' glue approximately 5 cm inside t' Rocket’s Body Tube.
9. Place Engine Mount inside Rocket’s Body Tube until t' Engine Tube is flush with t' Rocket’s Body Tube. Begad!
10. Apply glue t' centerin' rings. Ya scallywag! Aye aye! Blimey! Allow t' dry

#2: Silly Putty Eggs

1. Buy 3 Silly Putty Eggs
2. Cut t' connector tabs with a hobby cutlass.
3. Then sand t' raised writin' off t' top.

#3: Fins

1. Usin' t' template provided trace out t' win' pattern on a 1/8 balas wood.
2. Usin' a hobby cutlass cut out t' fins. Avast!
3. Sand down all jagged edges.
4. Glue on Silly putty cackle fruit onto t' matchin' shape on t' fins. Begad! Glue one on each side o' each fin. Blimey!
5. Glue on several fillets t' ensure that egg-fin contact is perfectly sealed.
6. Mount t' fins flush against t' end o' t' body tube usin' a fin mount. Blimey! Arrr! We used t' fin mount for 3 fins provided in T' Handbook o' Model Rocketry 7^th edition on page 38. Aye aye! Blimey! T' fins should be 120 degrees from each other. Ya scallywag! Ahoy! Blimey!

#4. Ahoy! Nose and parachute mount.

1. Cut out a Shock cord mount usin' stiff paper. Ahoy! Begad!
2. Glue shock cord on t' shock cord mount. Begad! Blimey! Blimey! Blimey!
3. Glue Shock cord mount approximately 5 cm inside t' forward part o' the body tube. Ya scallywag!
4. Tie free end o' shock cord t' t' nosecone’s eyelet. Ya scallywag! Apply a drop of glue t' t' knot. Begad!
5. Attach parachute t' t' nosecone eyelet. Avast!

#5. Aye aye! Launch Lug

1. Glue on t' h: 0.5 cm, shiver me timbers, l: 4.0 cm, w: 0.2 cm piece o' balsa wood 10 cm from the forward end o' t' body tube. Ya scallywag! Make sure that it is aligned parallel t' the body tube, ya bilge rat, me hearties, and also make sure that it is in betwixt t' fins. Blimey!
2. Attach Launch Lug on top o' t' strip o' balsa wood. (Note: T' reason for the strip o' balsa wood is t' elevate t' launch lug so as t' provide the launch rod clearance from t' nose cone. Begad! T' nose at one section is wider than the body tube)

#6. Well, blow me down! Arrr! Paint job

1. Spread balsa filler over t' fins. Arrr! Begad! Allow t' dry and than sand excess off.
2. Sand all external parts o' rocket. Well, blow me down!
3. Prime all external parts o' rocket
4. Paint body tube, fins, and nose cone red.
5. Paint Silly putty cackle fruit gray.
6. Nose cone

• First painted t' whole nosecone red
• Paint t' upper cap white.
• Paint 2 keyhole shapes on opposite sides o' nosecone. Ya scallywag!

#7. Ya scallywag! Body tube and launch lug

1. Painted body tube red. Begad! Aye aye! As well as t' launch lug and balsa wood strip.
2. Paint 3 parallel black rings approximately 2 mm from each other. Paint them approximately 9.3 cm from t' aft end o' body tube.
3. Paint a single gray rin' around t' aft end o' t' body tube. Avast, me proud beauty! It should 3.3 cm from t' end o' t' tube, and it should encircle around t' whole tube. Aye aye!

#8. Ahoy! Blimey! Avast, me proud beauty! Blimey! Fins

1. Paint fins red. Arrr! Ya scallywag!
2. Paint gray rectangle on each side in t' corner by t' fin root edge. Aye aye! The rectangle should be 3.3 cm high and should be around 4 cm wide. If it is a little bit wider than 4 cm it is okay, me hearties, shiver me timbers, because t' Silly Putty cackle fruit will cover the excess. Ya scallywag! (Note: This is easier done if you paint before initial construction. Arrr!

#9. Silly Putty eggs

1. Paint egg shell red. Avast, me proud beauty!
2. Once t' red paint is dry, paint most o' t' egg grey. T' grey should cover 5.2 cm o' t' egg, matey, startin' from t' bottom. Well, blow me down! Well, shiver me timbers, blow me down! There needs t' be 1.4 cm of red. Aye aye! Ahoy!

#10. Arrr! Decal stickers.

1. Take black sticky paper, and cut into 2.5 cm long by 1 mm strips. Ya scallywag! Blimey! Avast, shiver me timbers, me proud beauty! Blimey! Stick 4 of these length wise on each egg. Avast, me proud beauty! Blimey!
2. Then once again usin' t' black sticky paper cut several long 1 mm strips for t' black stripe that runs across t' egg and t' fin.

#11. Black Dots

1. Use a black permanent maker t' apply 8 dots t' each egg shell. Ahoy!

#12. Avast, me proud beauty! Begad! Nose Weight and Motor

1. Add 25-30 grams o' clay t' t' nose.
2. We used a B6-4 all o' t' launches, but a B6-2 would have been better.

Flights

Takeoff off. Blimey! Blimey! Flight #1 (above). Arrr! Blimey! Landing…..

Success flight. No damage rendered t' rocket.

Takeoff off. Flight #2 (above). But disaster strikes when t' shock cord snaps!!

And lawn darts (below). Ya scallywag! Blimey! Blimey! Blimey! Note: We have nay touched t' rocket yet in this picture. Arrr! Blimey! Ya scallywag! Blimey! Blimey! Blimey! It landed exactly like this. Begad! Blimey! Note that t' third fan, t' one stuck in the ground, arrr, shiver me timbers, shiver me timbers, is still intact. Avast, matey, me proud beauty! Blimey! Blimey! Blimey! Nose and parachute land a couple hundred feet away. Blimey! Blimey! T' rocket is now repaired and waits for its next launch. Blimey! Blimey!

Here is our video o' t' 2 launches. Arrr! Ignore our screams in t' background!

Here are two more successful flights o' our entry t' Red Bolt. Avast, me proud beauty! Begad! We only have videos for these launches: