It will be one of my first flights at LDRS.
Yup, built it, flew it, crashed it..
Drogue failed to deploy, when the main did - it shredded and the nose cone tore off. I recovered my big red bee GPS because of that. Nose cone landed right near the rest of the rocket. This was in the black rock desert, and we didn't recover much of the rocket the rest of it is still out there in the desert. Ground was hard clay and it was hard to dig it all the way through.
Wasn't there an un-boxing thread about this one?
Most unfortunate indeed...sorry for your loss.
Would you care to elaborate on what might have gone wrong at apogee?
What electronics did you use?
What type of deployment was implemented?
You might help other Mongoose owners avoid the same fate.
Yup, built it, flew it, crashed it..
Drogue didn't deploy most likely because of bad pressurization with the ejection charge made.
ARTS was used as electronics and triggered drogue and main e-matches correctly. Main deployed and zippered everything as it came down ballistic.
I built another one and flew it at BALLS on a K550 and then a research L1200 sucessfully. Pics to follow.
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