HIGH POWER ROCKETRY

Full Scale D-Region Tomahawk

This rocket is the upper stage for the Taurus Tomahawk. It was sucessfully test flown in Colorado at the LDRS 16 launch. It was flown with a Cambridge Accelerometer to deploy a 10ft drogue chute at apogee and the main 24ft chute to deploy at a 1000ft. It also had a Pratt remote system for redundant backup and a Adept altimeter for comparison purposes.
The specs on the flight:
Lift-off weight…110.00 Ibs
Max altitude…4853.52 ft. 0.92 miles
Max mach number…0.43
Max velocity…484.09 ft/sec. (330.06 mph)
Max acceleration…3.38 G's at 2.61 sec.
Max deceleration… -1.36 G'S at 7.00 sec.
Burnout alt … 2134.57 ft at 7.00 sec. (calc step: 0.01 sec).
Burnout velocity…449.61 ft/sec (local Mach 0.396) ( 306.55 mph)
Coast time…12.71 seconds

Below is some of the building process.

Full Scale Taurus Tomahawk

This is a project that I have been working on for a few years now. The Taurus Tomahawk is a 2 stage rocket with the upper stage being my original D-region Tomahawk powered by a healthy P-size motor which will be air lit. The lower Honest John Booster section will be powered by a large Q-size motor and it will be brought down by (3) 24ft chutes.
Projected weight should be a little over 600lbs.
Upper stage should ignite around 3000ft and with projected altitude of approx. 30,000 ft.

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