She "flew" at Hellfire. The first flight was beautiful. Ryan (Flynfrog) had an EX I200 (or something like that) wimpy red in a 38/480 case. Despite being one of his first EX motors, she worked beautifully! Nice red flame and a long burn time.
Great boost and perfect dual deploy. It was my 3rd dual deploy flight and my first time not using motor ejection.
Photo credit: Flynfrog.
Thanks for letting me fly your motor!
The second flight was a lot less pretty. I loaded her up with an AT I600 Redline (one of my favorite motors up until yesterday) I got her loaded on the pad, armed the altims and walked back.
The boost was NOT pretty. At about 60% of the burn the top half of the rocket separated and I could see flame coming out
BOTH sides of the booster.
Classic burn-through. It was pretty embarrassing to have that happen in front of a big crowd. I might have lost some trust and respect in the club.
I showed the motor to Jack Garabaldi, who verified that it was assembled correctly. I have no idea what happened to cause the burn through. Maybe I got a bad delay grain or something. I'll be contacting Aerotech tomorrow. I'm fairly certain that it will be covered.
I'm afraid that the booster is toast. The good news is that my upper section and my altimeters were untouched. Burn-through occurred at 447 feet, or so my Adept 22 reports.
Video and pictures to come tomorrow!
Alex