How to find Center of Lateral Pressure , CLP , of a rocket. Backslider bottle rocket

Good to know ! Water rocket ?

I have never heard about CLP before, thanks for the info!

Excellent tutorial! I'm gonna try it on my homemade rocket. Thanks!

Perfect

Hi Orville. Your both videos on this are very helpful. Thanks.
I have made a simple coney backslider rocket to test. I have done the swing tests as u have shown and marked CG and CLA.

However dont we need to do the other swing test where people circle the rocket around themselves and see if it always stays nose first? That would be needed for ascent. But when I did that test, my rocket tumbles around. Does that mean that it will topple during ascent, even though I have optimised it for backslider descent by your method? Pls help. It would be have been bonus if you also showed the same rocket with the circle swing test to see how it behaves.
Thanks.

So simple. Thank you. You got a new subscription.

So it is drag.

Great video. Very informative. Thank you

There in no such thing as clp for an elongated body traveliing through the air with its major axis pointing in the direction of motion. This a good example of an erroneous theory giving an OK result. An arrow with no fleches and with weighted tip will still turn sideways on the the direction of motion regardless of where “clp” is in relation to the cofg. Ask any archer.