Wrangorocket
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If I remember correctly, it was '72 when my Dad bought me my first rocket. Alpha or Alpha III, I don't remember. Later I bought a little rocket that had no parachute or streamer, it had a hole punched in the side and really thick "fins". It would tumble down to the ground and the extra thick "fins" would stay intact. I was always worried about it surviving every time I launched it.
Yesterday I bought my Grandson his first rocket. I got him a Taser Twin. Maybe a little too much for an 8yo but Gramps wants in on the action too. :roll:
So, my question is this: Being a two stage rocket I assume after the first stage completes and the engine "backfires" to start the 2nd. stage does the 1st. stage tube and fins simply tumble to the ground? My concern is that the fins are so thin and light that they will break upon landing.:y: I'm hoping the 1st. stage engine falls out. Is that what happens?
Yesterday I bought my Grandson his first rocket. I got him a Taser Twin. Maybe a little too much for an 8yo but Gramps wants in on the action too. :roll:
So, my question is this: Being a two stage rocket I assume after the first stage completes and the engine "backfires" to start the 2nd. stage does the 1st. stage tube and fins simply tumble to the ground? My concern is that the fins are so thin and light that they will break upon landing.:y: I'm hoping the 1st. stage engine falls out. Is that what happens?
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