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What is the craziest recovery that didn't result in any major damage to your rocket?
Best regards,
Brian
Best regards,
Brian
My AT G-Force. Only went to about 900', but it was windy, and it came down about 300' away. As I was walking to it, I didn't realize that it had wind-dragged several hundred feet into a creek. Someone else founding floating downstream hours later.
The tubes were water-logged and crumpled, but I straightened them out, hardened them, and the rocket is ready to fly again.
Kevin,
Thanks again for recovering it. Although old and inexpensive, I love that rocket. So glad I could fix it at virtually no cost.
Not quite a recovery, but when I first flew my 2 stager LPR rocket, the staging somehow popped the nose cone off of the sustainer. Weirdly enough, the rocket still flew fine under the sustainer's power, with the nose cone dragging behind it in the rocket exhaust (and just an open body tube on the top end). The ejection charge pushed the chute out at the right time, and all went well, until the nose cone/chute separated from the main rocket- probably because it had been weakened by the rockets exhaust. The rocket proceeded to core sample, and the nose cone/chute floated off to somewhere yet to be found. No damage to the sustainer and the booster stages otherwise, and the rocket flew again, with a new nose cone/chute.
Best part of all of this was that I have onboard video of the flight on youtube.
My buddy John actually got it while waiting for me to drive out an pick him and my Dad up from some long recoveries. Teamwork, I guess.
Gary,
That is too funny. The icing on the cake is when the ejection charge comes at the very end.
Best regards,
Brian
My AT G-Force. Only went to about 900', but it was windy, and it came down about 300' away. As I was walking to it, I didn't realize that it had wind-dragged several hundred feet into a creek. Someone else founding floating downstream hours later.
The tubes were water-logged and crumpled, but I straightened them out, hardened them, and the rocket is ready to fly again.
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