Schneider Chat Room version 2.0

I was in the market for a new car and when I saw this one on the lot, I knew it was the one for me. I am partial to orange since working for Schneider, lol

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Congrats on the new ride!

 

How could you possibly have been rested with only one 1-5 period? The government says you can't be!

Except now they say you can...

 

Since I'm joining the Schneider family next week I thought I would share my hobby with anyone who may be interested. We all drive to support our families or just ourselves, but having a hobby to distract from the stress of driving and the chaos of life in general is healthy. I have been flying rockets since around 1978 and several years ago moved from the small model rockets to much larger High Power Rockets. Below is a video of one of many rockets I fly regularly. This rocket, a 4" Patriot crashed last Summer and this is the memorial video for it. There is some good on-board footage as well as a lot of launch shots. I think all the launches shown in the video are flying on J motors. This rocket is almost repaired and should be ready to fly again when the Spring flying season rolls around. If anyone is interested in learning more about High Power Rocketry, let me know. I would be happy to share my knowledge and experience.

 

Welcome aboard, I hope things go well for you here at the big pumpkin. I remember watching a story about Amateur Rocketry back years ago when The Discovery Channel had great programming. I hope you don't have a CATO.

 

Hey gang, do any of you know if you can fuel at the Walmart DCs with Schneider maintenance? Or is it only for the dedicated fleet?

 

Very cool. Makes me want to get back into my RC hobby again. Had a RC10GT, electric Stampede, E-Maxx, RC18T with a Mamba brushless motor, and I started building a SC10 just completely loaded with a complete overkill brushless setup but never got around to finishing it. Now I want to LOL. I tried giving flight a shot once with a 4ch heli, but never really got it off the ground that far, think I'm better suited for land vehicles.

Watching those rockets take off reminded me of building the (much smaller) versions with my dad. Man it was so exciting getting to press the button on the igniter controller and watch that thing go PFFFWSHSSHHSHHHHHHHH off into the sky and parachute back down. Had one we put a little too much motor in and although I was probably 8 at the time I'm still convinced to this day that it got sent into orbit.

Good luck with the remaining repairs and look forward to seeing some more footage.

How many times have you had one of these land on a parked car nearby?

 

I played with RC on the nitro side and seemed to spend a lot of time fixing and not so much time driving. I didn't have the super expensive high quality stuff though, cheap Red Cat junk. Still got to bash around a bit.

As for landing on cars, this 1:30 min. video shows the closest I have come to denting up a car. Too close for comfort. On the previous launch the day this happened, my rocket landed about 2 miles the other direction, so I though I would solve that problem by angling the launch rail a bit more the other way. Well, my non-mathematical judgement put the rocket pretty much straight above the flight line. My bad!