Hello
Well as if I'm not putting enough money into rocketry I came up with
another project idea, but this one is remarkbly cheep. To put it in a nut
shell I plan to launch an 8mm home movie camera. (Had one laying around).
I plan to build a 3 .5ft long 3.1" booster capable of using 29mm motors.
Without the camera pod the booster can fly with a simple 3.1" nose cone.
I plane to use a small section of 5.5" tubing to make a pod which will
house the camera, with the lense sticking out one side. It will have it's
own nose cone and a transition to 3.1". Upon liftoff an elastic is
allowed to clamp down onto the shutter key and start the camera, (very
simple idea). The camera is a Kodak Brownie 8mm home movie camera. It
will be cradled in foam *** or padding of some kind but restrained
enough so as not to move too much. Some crude estimate show that in it's
HPR-lite form the rocket and camera should go to about 700ft on a G80-4.
Other smaller H motors could also be used as I just got certifed. So this
leaves me with the question, where does one get 8mm film? I know there
are still Cinerocs flying and this project is like a "mutant" Cineroc.