Any Friday the 13th rocket disasters?

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CQBArms

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I snapped a fin on a rocket (Lamprey)). The bummer is the bottm half of the fin is still on the rocket...
 
My 4" rocket was pretty much destroyed when the altimeter blew the chute at mach 1.5 on an AT M1315 White Lightning reload.

Andrew
 
I was quickly building my Geminee to launch on the 14th. After having built it with wood glue, I read a couple of reviews that said that the fuselages can break easily so decided to strengthen them a bit with a coat of thin CA. I did a pretty good job of coating my right index finger instead, and only just managed to let go of the rocket before it fully set. ;)

As an epilogue, the Geminee on an A3-4T flew straight up, got hit with a wind gust, did an about face and power pranged. Both fuselages broke. :D
 
I did not get to fly on a nice day but I also had a bad Monday
morning after (or Monday evening).

I was stripping some wires with one of the gun type stripper/
cutters and cut into my little pinky (OUCH, OUCH, OUCH).:eek: :(

That has slowed my work down on my L3 project quite a bit.
Especially since most of the work I needed to do this week was
wiring and electronics besides the cords and chutes with a lot of
hand work.

William
 
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