🚀 Rocket Aerodynamics — From STL to Flight-Ready Insights
Altitude is great—but control and stability win flights. In this video, I show how to take your rocket’s STL file and run a complete CFD analysis in Stallion 3D so you can predict side force, spin tendency, and CP shift before launch.
What’s inside
- Import your STL from OpenVSP, Tinkercad, or OpenRocket
- Set realistic flight conditions: Mach, altitude, angle of attack
- Run the solver to get surface pressure, side force, yaw moment, spin tendency, and CP shift
Why it matters
Estimates for CG/CP are a start, but they miss critical effects—fin misalignment, transonic bumps, and asymmetric forces. Stallion 3D gives you the full aerodynamic picture so launches are straighter, faster, and more reliable.
Smarter launches start here. — hanley@hanleyinnovations.com
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