Look up Nevada Dave and check out how he was doing it. But Armadillo
certainly had a good set up. It's all about parachute packing. Take your
rocket to a skydiving school and let them show you how to pack it. All
that will take is practice.
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Subject: [AR] Re: Flight Controller Features
From: qbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, January 11, 2016 5:02 pm
To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi Henery
RC controlled parachute can absolutely work. We've seen Armadillo do
it on at least one occasion and the Condor team did dozens of
flights, not all successful. the to Kicker for us was deployment and
the fact that occasionally we were 40km downrange so although they
landed good some were still miles away, a problem you should not have
with rocketry. All it takes is a single control line to get tangled
and it not landing where you want it too. never could get it above a
75% success rate.
Robert
At 04:45 PM 1/11/2016, you wrote:
On Sun, 10 Jan 2016, rebel without a job wrote:
A guided parachute seems wonderful. I'd prefer a choppy landing
near me to a choppy landing in a distant, unknown location...
The fancier gliding parachutes can also do a flare maneuver to
provide a relatively gentle touchdown. Provided, that is, that
you've got the sensors and controls needed to time it just
right. Hardware and software for that could take a fair bit of developing.
Henry
