Hi Tim... Maybe change the nose cones and add a tail cone and decal kit to make an S.R.B kit for an Apogee Space shuttle. A few companies make shuttle kits but, everything stays together.. If you add a hook and strake to the "tank", the orbiter can detach and glide in. Imagine a shuttle with "g" motors!!! Love the vids.

Very elegant solution, I really like it! Very well done Tim, and thank you.

We used to fly a 3-tube first stage to mimic strap-on boosters. Have main rocket as single tube design and was the 2nd stage. First stage was 3-tubes. Larger center tube with with two longer side tubes that fit partway up the upper stage. Center motor was a booster like a B6-0 and the two sides were B6-3 engines. Booster lit the 2nd stage and separation happened. Few seconds later, the side engines would eject the chutes or streamers from the side tubes. Worked kind of neat. But these side boosters would have been cleaner and more fun. Also wouldn't require it to be 2-stage. Lots of fun new stuff. (compared to my flying in 60's and early 70's. :-)

Hi Tim! I bought the kit!!! Thanks for the video.

Great video! Love the design!! I wish there was a way to add pods that left the core rocket more streamlined upon separation...

I've been trying to find a way to do this for a while. My first initial designs used a paper clip and launch lug, the booster wouldn't remain attached unless an engine was firing, I never tested it but got a few test models built before I moved to other project. I then designed one that ditched the paper clip and had a balsa fin hook, that also would only allow the booster to be attached when the motor was firing, but looked better, and would keep the motors on straight during flight. No models where ever built of flown of this design.

Very nice sir

I made a scratch-built rocket many years ago that had two strap-on boosters. I used a small aluminium pipe (roughly 4mm OD) that was fixed pointing out 90 degrees from the booster side and slid into the opposite pipe on the side of the main rocket tube. The boosters were sealed so no chutes but the hollow aluminium pipes did allow the ejection charge to escape through them so would push themselves out of the body of the main tube. The lower mount was just enough to hook the boosters as the aluminium top mounts were very secure. When they separated all that was left was a tiny metal hook as the sliding fit at the top was just a small hole. I tested it on the ground in a jig a lot until I got them to pop off just right with a C6-0. The ejection charge was just a sprinkle of BP. It hardly needed anything as there was no other way for the gases to escape. I think a full ejection motor would blow the strap on up. I am in the UK so it's hard to get a lot of HPR and even MPR stuff but I have managed to get hold of F15-0's and can easily get D12-0's as strap on boosters so I am tempted to make something similar again. I sometimes think about making small explosive "bolts". You can get tiny firecrackers in France that are about 3mm in diameter and 15mm long and could easily be used to fix boosters to the sides. If you used quick match, it might be possible to have them explode at burnout. They would probably be strong enough and the side of the rocket would only need protection from a small area of aluminium sheet. It might be fun to see if you can get the concept to work with A-size engines. It would look very cool if they popped and the booster fell away. The boosters did not need parachutes as they were so simple they just tumbled. I wasn't too worried about getting them back undamaged :-)

Of the many different things I've seen folks come up with in this hobby........this is one of the coolest ones. Great item & glad you folks are offering it after the inventor went under. And Tim has a really good video of it & how it works.

looking at the hand drawn bands and rivets on the body tube...this looks like a very early rendering of the now "Flying Machine"

This is really cool. I always wanted to add some detachable boosters to a rocket. I wish the kit used 29mm tubes instead of 24mm ones so I could use a G80 with it, or if you guys sold the guide along with the hooks so I could just scrap together my own kit.

that's a smart design

Reverse the way the hook up is working. A thicker ring inside the lower body tube and let the booster hook inside the body. The upper hook will slide down into the body. Then the ejection charge will slide the hook forward and release the booster . wind then rotates the booster out and away. A spring inside the body could push a plate out to smooth the body and fill the opening.

Good stuff!

Do you think if I were to use two of the biggest c motors in these, it will lift two d motors? That would be really neat if I could turn my two stage into a three.

Any idea how much asymmetric thrust effect would cause that setup to fly sideways if one of the boosters fails to ignite? Would the fins be enough to keep it flying relatively straight up in that scenario?

Would the boosters add enough thrust to overcome the extra weight and surface area and send the rocket higher? Or is it mostly an ascetic thing? (They're really cool either way!)

When you buy the flying machine, do you get the fins with the already jagged sides or are they flat?

Super

I want to try this kit, my one question is are you using wadding in the boosters? Would a baffle work ok?

I made my own strap on boosters and It works by inserting a flat rectangle into the pod and making a small box frame made in between the pod and the core stage, so it's only open when it's separated from the core. When the recovery charge happens, it pushes off the rectangle, and exposes the parachute hidden inside the small box.

What is the name of the rocket that you are strapping on the pods to

Hey can you make a detailed video on parachute ejection?

What is the main rocket in your demo?

Question. What if one booster burns out before the other. Will the rocket go off course?

You made mention in a different comment I made that you can run these pods with 24mm d engines. I assume that means don't install the 18mm motor mounts and just sing the d engines into the booster and just use the centering ring to index the engine depth?

Did you fly the rocket in this video with just three fins?

I see that these are blue and white. the ones on the website are red and white. can I get them in blue. I am scratch building a rocket called Blue Dragon and the final component I need is the strap on boosters. the core vehicle is blue and white and I want the booster pods to match.

Nice

hi can you tell me how to make the main rocke tignite after the booster?

What's the most strap-on boosters pods you've ever seen someone put onto a core vehicle? With the core vehicle diameter and pod diameter with your example rocket, it looks like you could put as many as 8 pods on it, and still have room for fins to fit between them. More power! :D

What is the rocket kit you are using in the video?

hello, how thick, wide and Long is the wooden strip that is attached to the booster rocket?

why is the rocket missing a fin?

Legend has it that Sergei Korolev watched this before designing the r7.

Well I made some boosters for mine and it’s just tape, there’s 4 boosters and 1 main but it hasn’t been tested yet but will soon

what categorie are they in

where can I buy one?

Omg

I think it's time for a Professional Competition Sport Racketeer and paid Competition. ..so now we need sponsors...

Can you make a living flying Sport Rockets

Here is a slightly different design for larger rockets: www.rocketryforum.com/showthread.php?41657-Parallel-Staging-Motor-choices-and-designs&p=476655#post476655

Im afraid of his eyes

this could be useful for Ukraine?