This is a scratch built design, meant to experiment with clustering to help BP E and F motors get off the pad without weathercocking. This flight had a central E12-6 with two C5-3s for boost. The C5 ejection charges vent out the back and do not deploy the parachute.
One of the C5s blew out its nozzle at ignition. Except for a lower apogee than expected, not a disaster.
This is my first time using C5s. Do they do this often? (I would have expected the E12 to be problematic.)
MESS report filed.
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