Today's flying day was marred by no less than three CATO's from the same package. My flying buddies and I took to the field to have some fun. We ended up losing three rockets today. Hey, we build them with known expiration dates, but cato's....huuugh! The motors, Estes E-9-6, have always performed admirably, but not today. The first victim was my trusty, high flying Vagabond, on takeoff the motor malfunctioned and destroyed the rocket. Thinking it was just a bad motor, we put another E motor from the same pack into a Red Flare. The explosion knocked the phone from my hands. I have placed a link here but be warned, there is profanity on the video, sorry for that. The third, we thought, let's just light it off outside of a rocket in case it cato's also, and boy are we glad we did. The explosion was louder than my handgun! Of the three Arapahoe E's one was lost
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