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Day: March 30, 2017

Understanding Piston launching for competitions

I have been curious about model rocket piston launchers and found a few things that explain it quite well.

this video from Apogee is quite helpful

 

Standard and Floating piston option

Piston launcher set up

Author JET66Posted on March 30, 2017Categories Blog Posts
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