Ok...I am considering a staged project in either a 3 or 4 inch airframe
> and am looking for help hints, suggestions and experience in building
> interstage couplers.
Pardon me for posting 1984 technology to solve a 2003 question of merit.
Jerry
> I would like to make the 3 inch project capable of handling a full J
> booster (J570) to J (Pro 38 J400SS) in the sustainer. The 4 inch would
> be capable of K to K staging. These specs would be the upperlimit of the
> proposed flight characteristics. I will be using a phenolic airframe
> with Fiberglass reinforcement.
>
> Drag Separation or speration charge?
>
> Steel rod or other interstage reinforcement?
>
> I plan on Dual deployment for both the booster and sustainer.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Mark A Palmer
> TRA 08542 L3
>