Firefly aluminum and black powder rocket

[Uarbor]

Great Question!

Just add Ti (Titanium) to your Delay.

Never add any kind of Metal to your Fuel/Spindle Area.

You can add 80 Mesh/Course Charcoal to your Fuel after you Ball Mill your Black Powder to create a Sparky Trail Effect.

(After you Bal Mill your Rocket Fuel, Hand mix the 80 mesh Charcoal into your Rocket Fuel)

Google: Ned Gorski

Stay Safe!

 

Pyro Ashes

Rhode Island

thanks. I am going to add some spherical titanium to the delay. Do you think this will change the burn rate? I assume it will not change the lifting power of the rocket because it is not in the spindle area. I decided to experiment a little and use some of my 12 mesh homemade Birch charcoal check out the video. Birch makes a lot of nice sparks for Tiger Tail also

 

https://youtube.com/shorts/Y-6LQD0-o9k?feature=share

Edited June 20, 2021 by Uarbor

[Twesla]

Last night, I fired a hybrid and firefly rocket using the sky lighter lampblack formula and K-102 firefly aluminum, and I can confirm that the K-102 flake aluminum does not reliably ignite in this type of formula. Heres the video.

 

Edited July 4, 2021 by Twesla

[Uarbor]

Last night, I fired a hybrid and firefly rocket using the sky lighter lampblack formula and K-102 firefly aluminum, and I can confirm that the K-102 flake aluminum does not reliably ignite in this type of formula. Heres the video.

 

https://vimeo.com/570992826?utm_source=email&utm_medium=vimeo-cliptranscode-201504&utm_campaign=29220

Very cool looking rocket you have there. I gave up on the aluminum and decided just to go with charcoal Sparks

 

https://youtube.com/shorts/Xcj-6sWMrAA?feature=share

[pyrokid]

Nice red strobes! Could you share the composition?

[DecimusMaximus]

On 7/4/2021 at 1:51 PM, Twesla said:

Last night, I fired a hybrid and firefly rocket using the sky lighter lampblack formula and K-102 firefly aluminum, and I can confirm that the K-102 flake aluminum does not reliably ignite in this type of formula. Heres the video.

 

 

I know this post was 3 years ago but one could hope I get a decent reply. Wow that was awesome and what do you mean it didn't reliably ignite? It looked pretty good! I just made a batch myself with K102 firefly. will test soon

Btw, great rocket! How did you make it go so high and rise up slowly and almost rise up in slow motion then ignite? Was this a long motor that was longer than like 10 inches?