edwardw
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Yesterday I flew my creation - Unfinished Requiem for my L1 attempt at our three day Springfest launch.
No Joy.
Flew on a Pro 38 H153. I had dual deploy set up because of the wind - rockets were drifting 1-2-3+ miles A guy never found his 2 stage K rocket - live telemetry said 18k feet.
Rocket went up - at top the rocket split - drogue-less dual. Then at 500 feet nothing happened. Until it met the ground.
It hit the ground, cracked both body tubes. No cracked fins though - TTW works great. The electronics were okay - reported 2244 feet - and the rental 2 grain case were fine. It's okay - I'm going to rebuilt nearly the same rocket and fly in two more weeks at our May launch.
Post analysis says the main dual e-matches didn't fire - at all. I went back to the truck and hooked it up to the computer - left everything the same as I found it on the ground and hit the "Test Main" button. Both lit like the 4th of July. Bah.
On other notes - we had a great day though. I think there were 5 cert attempts - 2 L2 and 3 L1. Lots of fliers. We had 2 catos - on BP motor and one K motor that shot flames out both ends.
There was a group M3000 project - very cool. Only bad part was it tore the fins off at about 1000 feet - was still stable to keep climbing - then no electronics were working so it core sampled about 2000 feet from the tower. Sad time. Sure is cool to see that huge flame.
Well, I'll keep you updated in two weeks and I will have some build pics. Here is a picture of me with the rocket before the flight.
Edward
No Joy.
Flew on a Pro 38 H153. I had dual deploy set up because of the wind - rockets were drifting 1-2-3+ miles A guy never found his 2 stage K rocket - live telemetry said 18k feet.
Rocket went up - at top the rocket split - drogue-less dual. Then at 500 feet nothing happened. Until it met the ground.
It hit the ground, cracked both body tubes. No cracked fins though - TTW works great. The electronics were okay - reported 2244 feet - and the rental 2 grain case were fine. It's okay - I'm going to rebuilt nearly the same rocket and fly in two more weeks at our May launch.
Post analysis says the main dual e-matches didn't fire - at all. I went back to the truck and hooked it up to the computer - left everything the same as I found it on the ground and hit the "Test Main" button. Both lit like the 4th of July. Bah.
On other notes - we had a great day though. I think there were 5 cert attempts - 2 L2 and 3 L1. Lots of fliers. We had 2 catos - on BP motor and one K motor that shot flames out both ends.
There was a group M3000 project - very cool. Only bad part was it tore the fins off at about 1000 feet - was still stable to keep climbing - then no electronics were working so it core sampled about 2000 feet from the tower. Sad time. Sure is cool to see that huge flame.
Well, I'll keep you updated in two weeks and I will have some build pics. Here is a picture of me with the rocket before the flight.
Edward