slohand
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I had my first CATO this weekend and was looking for some community input as to what went wrong. I had planned this launch for quite some time, had a seven page checklist that I followed closely and still I had this CATO. Was it the motor? Did I do something wrong?
Details:
Scratch built 4" Patriot
Launch was for my Mother-in-laws 90 birthday
it was windy but not crazy (32 kph)
rocket weighed 3 kg
Motor Ceseroni J94 (plugged)
CP and CG well within acceptable (.247 cal in Open Rocket)
From the video you can see that the motor ejected out the top. Although the Video doesn't show the aft end, there was never any smoke or flame out of the bottom of the rocket. WTF did I do wrong?????
Any comments welcome .... I'm learning.
Details:
Scratch built 4" Patriot
Launch was for my Mother-in-laws 90 birthday
it was windy but not crazy (32 kph)
rocket weighed 3 kg
Motor Ceseroni J94 (plugged)
CP and CG well within acceptable (.247 cal in Open Rocket)
From the video you can see that the motor ejected out the top. Although the Video doesn't show the aft end, there was never any smoke or flame out of the bottom of the rocket. WTF did I do wrong?????
Any comments welcome .... I'm learning.