This is the basic fin design that Jeremy found. I think it will take some work for our hybrid rocket fins to look this seamless, especially since no one on the max altitude team has any experience with carbon fiber. Personally, I wish we could go ahead and get started with all this stuff, rather that have people sit and talk about what they think is the best design, or what they have done previously. Every rocket is different I think, and no amount of talking can replace experimentation. Also, we only have launch windows once a month, so if anything goes wrong it will take a month before we can truly verify that we have solved the problem. Overall, I'm not really satisfied with this project, I think that we should already be planning tests of the ping pong ball motor. The order I think is best for design would be to work on the motor first, get a 25:1 ration out of it, then to buy the electronics and parachute system, and then finally get the carbon fiber body and fit all those components into it. Right now there is no progress on anything, only discussions about rockets. Thats fine and all, but by meeting 4 something should start happening aside from simply 'forming groups'.
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