Kiwi 2 Space

I have also made two 4”dia tanks from aluminium irrigation tubing, one of them I got aluminium end caps welded on, but my welder struggled welding the 1.2mm thick tube because of the properties.

I’ve done abit of work with composites in the past and have just rekindled my interest again.

With the no light of the previous week I resurrected the torch igniter and started designing and making a new one. I spent quite a late night going through Armadillo Aerospace’s news archive and Unreasonable Rockets archive, making notes and looking at pictures, from all this (and after some advice from others) I machined up a new igniter.

Its been an up and down last few months, a few weeks ago I finally managed to get our little 100lbf liquid engine ready for testing, being that its winter here and I was unable to take time off work I set a time for a night test, a daytime test would of been better for a first test but you have to go with what you’ve got.

Well its been quite a while since the last update, almost a year. I'm glad to say we are still around and humming along, just not good at this whole internet thing, so if you do follow us your more than likely to get the updated news under my twitter account @fineri, much easier to do a quick note there, so I do apologise if you've been waiting for the next news item on this site.