So in the rush of the moment I did not take much pictures prior to launch. It went like this - sand the fincan in a brunos hotel room, bond the fincan to the motor case, prep. the BP charges, assemble the rocket... all in one day. Might not sound like much but sanding the ablative off in a hotel room from scratch is a lot of work. The choice was launch a rocket or wait - didn't want to wait and didn't design this rocket to be optimized therefore I didn't care much. That's not to say that the fincan came out bad. It didn't; it came out pretty nice.
Anyways my mind was on getting the rocket in the air and not on taking any pictures. Sorry guys.
I do have video of the flight. I will post it as soon as I get it edited and uploaded. Thanks for the patience.
Checklist:
- The FIRST successful MD (or subMD) ALL COMPOSITE N5800 flight.... CHECK
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[*]TRA N Altitude Record.... CHECK
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[*]Level 3 certification.... CHECK
A still from a video.
Lift off.
Everything seems to be in order.
All the recovery gear is good for another round.
What an amazing site to walk up to.
My little 'dangerous,' parachute.
Fincan post flight. Showing signs of a warrior.
Close up of the fincan. As you can see the leading edges do not look like they have bites taken out of them. Held up pretty well - even the ablative did. I'll take it.
Post flight reassemble shot.
~10lb rocket now - not so hard to trek with.
BALLS picturesque.
BRB data. 66,527 ft MSL.
TeleMega data. 63,852 ft AGL @ Mach 3.5. And thats the N record folks.
Lift off to splash down. If I remember correctly recovery was something like 3.7 miles from the launch site.