Patent ID: 8998669
Filing Date: 2015-04-07
Classification: A63H

Abstract:
1. A reconfigurable model rocket comprising: a main body tube having top and bottom ends; a nose cone removably coupleable to the top end of the main body tube; a first tail section, having top and bottom ends, wherein the top end of the first tail section is secured to the bottom end of the main body tube, wherein the first tail section accommodates a first rocket engine having a combustible propellant to propel the model rocket by allowing gases from the combustible propellant to escape from the bottom end of the first tail section; a second tail section, having top and bottom ends, wherein the top end of the second tail section is removably coupleable to the bottom end of the first tail section, wherein the second tail section accommodates a second rocket engine having a combustible propellant to propel the model rocket by allowing gases from the combustible propellant to escape from the bottom end of the second tail section; a staging adapter that is removably coupleable to the bottom end of the first tail section and removably coupleable to the top end of the second tail section so as to couple the first and second tail sections together, the staging adapter conveys the combustion gases to the first rocket engine to ignite the first rocket engine when the combustible propellant of the second rocket engine has been depleted; and wherein the model rocket can be reconfigured to be flown both as: (1) as a single stage rocket in a first configuration comprising the main body, the nose cone, the first tail section, and without the staging adapter, and (2) as a dual-stage rocket in a second configuration comprising the main body, the nose cone, the first tail section, the staging adapter, and the second tail section.