Based on comments from people who performed shock/vibration testing professionally, the vast majority of failures come from interconnect wiring. That was before SMTs so I have no reason to suspect that this changed. Strain relief on all wiring is critical.
Here is a document showing the updated area of expected landing:
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewe...&ll=39.05094354877484,-75.83206774999996&z=13
Are you actually being serious about this? We already drove the roads throughout that area and didn't see a single thing.Well, I don't know if you've done this already but it's time to call the police and report it stolen. There's a road running right through the middle of that possible recovery zone meaning someone could easily picked it up and run off with it. It's not a very nice thing to suggest but I've seen it happen before.
I really hope you get this back ...
Are you actually being serious about this? We already drove the roads throughout that area and didn't see a single thing.
Hey, Matt, if you do call, and they don't have a rocket that sounds like your L3 kit, but they do have one that sounds like a 4" FWFG split-fin job, would you let me know?
BTW, everything about the launch is legal, right down to the FAA waiver, so just tell the police the truth.
So I guess... call the local police station and say "Hello, I lost a large rocket at a rocket launch, and I just want to ask that if anything turns up can you contact me"?
"I'm looking for a thing that's pointy on one end, and bigger on the back end.. and solid. Probably lost around this area, with some stretchy stuff attached to it,"
"sure we got one of those.. stop on down"
And then they hand you this
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Considering it's already a royal PITA to load in the back of a car dissasembled, I'd be amazed it someone could get it in their car.
So all this has me thinking that anything that I fly that goes out of sight (regardless of tracker) should have one of those stainless steel dog tags that you get from the machine at Wal Mart on it somewhere.
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