Buster

Buster
Diameter	5.16 inches (131mm)
Length	9 feet 9 inches (3.0 m)
Weight (no motor)	27.5 lbs. (12.5 kg)
Motor Size	75mm
Number of Flights	4
Highest Altitude	11,815 feet AGL (3601 m)
Highest Speed	982 ft/s (299 m/s, 670 mph, Mach 0.88)
Status	Ready to fly
Sim File	https://github.com/DanCrank/openrocket-sim-files/blob/master/BusterXL_v2.ork

Buster is the rocket I built for my NAR level 3 certification, which I achieved in November 2016. I spent about six months on the build (March through August 2016) and flew it for the first time at Airfest that year, on an L1355 motor. My certification attempt was Buster's second flight, on an M1401. Since then, I have flown Buster twice more: at Airfest 2017 on an M1850, and at a local SLRA launch on an M1500.

The kit is a Rocketry Warehouse Terminator 5 with an extended forward airframe section using a 36“ long tube in place of the 22” tube supplied with the kit, to allow for larger parachutes. It uses a Spherachutes 24“ heavy-duty drogue and a Fruity Chutes 84” toroidal main parachute deployed from a bag with Fruity Chutes 48“ toroidal pilot parachute. The nose cone detaches at main deployment and descend on the pilot parachute separately from the rest of the rocket. Deployment is handled by a MissileWorks RRC3, with an RRC2+ as an independent backup system. A TeleMetrum TeleGPS tracker is carried in the nose and a BigRedBee BeeLine tracker in the av-bay. Finally, a Mobius video camera is carried in an external shroud attached to the upper airframe, pointing downwards.