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General Data: Height 15' Diameter: 11.7" Weight: 115 lbs. Dry Motor: Aerotech M-1939 Planned Date of Launch: November 11, 2000. Location: ROC Stock XII @ Lucerne Valley, CA Dedication: To All Veterans
This is a photo of a set of real HAWK missiles. This is ours. Team Members: Carl Delzell- Chief Project Engineer, Promotion, Web Master, Documentation, Recovery. Jim McMullin- Design and Simulation Specialist, Procurement, Photography. Tom Dittman- Ignition Specialist, Range Technician, Composite Structures Technician Lloyd Parker- Electronic Engineer, Machinist, Design Specialist Fred (Doc) Rupp- Adjustable Ballast Engineer, All Around Nice Guy. Anthony Bullington- Structural Design Specialist, Assembly. Domingo Duran- Materials Fabrication Technician, work shop. Ken Finwall- Propulsion Omar Quinones- Paint Specialist and another work shop. Special thanks to the G-Wiz Partners for their sponsorship. They have generously provided a LC Deluxe 800 for one of the three HAWK electronics bays.
And yet another special thanks to the generous folk over at Wavelength Electronics for sponsoring us with electronic components for one of the electronic units to fly on board the HAWK missile.
Propulsion made possible through special arrangements with:
Super thanks to:
for providing the super clean decals for the HAWK Missile project. Other decals were provided by Desert Signs in Barstow California. The great people at the Lenwood Fireman's Service Club pitched in to help us purchase the motor for our project. Each team member puts into the project as they have time and cash. The team effort makes it possible to build something that none of us would have attempted alone in such a short time and with limited resources. Several of the team members also have other personal rocket projects and certification attempts going along with this team project. Team work is fun and has helped us to find others in our community that have similar interests. Here is to team work.. Team Rage! Sunday August 20, 2000 Components on hand: 3 phenolic airframe sections 11.5" x 48", 3 couplers, a 36" x 98mm motor tube and a 42" fiberglass nose cone from PML. Two 4x8 sheets of 1/2" luan plywood. Ten yards of fine weave 6 oz. fiberglass. One gallon of Aeropoxy with hardener. One 24' parachute. One dual tone R/C emergency recovery system. First Gathering of the team members to begin the project. General layout of the project was discussed and a number of problem areas were worked out. We cut fins and glassed the inside of one of the couplers, and cut airframe to length.
Carl, Domingo, Doc, Lloyd, Tom Photo by Jim McMullin
Layout and cutout happening. That is Jim in the left picture on the right. Friday August 25, 2000 Fins were beveled, skelatonized, and foam inserted in the voids. Centering rings were cut. Discussions and decisions were made about the engineering of the recovery and avionics compartments. Avionics bay components were cut out. Thursday August 31, 2000 Major progress on the tail cone section, and more discussion of the avionics bay. Pictures of a few components and work in progress. Discussions about needed supplies and parts. Jim built the rocket in ROC SIM for the initial documentation and simulation. Initial projections are dismal in terms of needed ballast for stability. This will help us put more effort into cutting weight at the bottom of the rocket. We also glassed another coupler. Lloyd and Anthony took home the two main sections of airframe and a coupler and assembled them together.
Friday September 8, 2000 Assembly of the tail cone structure, glassing of the main airframe section. Discussions about the assembly procedures needed for the major assembly of the fincan into the airframe which will take place later this month.
Jim goes to town on cutting the 6 oz. fiberglass. Domingo, Anthony, and Lloyd work on the tailcone assembly in the background.
Sanding, sanding, sanding, and more sanding. Thursday, September 14 More work on the tail cone, fins were sanded and a pair of them were glassed. The main airframe was sanded smooth and the short section of airframe was glassed. Then we cut the tubing for the avionics bay and chatted about the overall progress and agreed that we might start meeting more often even if only a few members can get there. Our plan is to get to the ground testing stage by the early to mid part of October.
Doc works over the fins before the glassing begins.
Lloyd is confident the tailcone can take whatever motor we decide to use.
Domingo applies epoxy to the fins before the glass is laid on.
Onboard avionics provided by the ballistic chicken from Rocket Rage, hee hee. Monday, September 17 Trimmed out the fins that we glassed last week. Fine tuned the avionics bay and ejection charge parts and designed the remainder of the upper coupler attachment. Sanded on the short upper airframes section. Friday, September 21 Sanded the two fins we glassed at the last meeting. Assembled the adjustable ballast system and cut centering rings to install it. Glassed the tail cone. Glassed the other two fins. The team discussed a proposal for sponsorship from an electronics manufacturer. More details on this soon. There is much more. Questions or comments: Rage@RocketRage.com If you think this page is cool, hit this button and check our status while you vote for us.
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