Karl
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Whilst watching a movie/film in Physics this morning, we were on the topic of electricity and where we can produce it....And we watched a video of a lab that is 10,000ft high on a mountain. And they used Model Rocket Motors & A nosecone attached to a stick (Like a bottle rocket), and a big reel of thin copper wire.
They launched the rockets by using a E-Match and blowing down a tube quite hard, about 100yards away in a small bunker. ( I dont know how this works )
I expected it to be like Estes C6's or something but when I saw the launch video , it was more like they were using Econojet F20's, but they did use normal BP motors. The reason they do this is so that when the rocket goes high into the thunder cloud, lightning hits the copper wire, and travels down into a lab where they Analise it.
I just thought this was a interesting way of using model rocket motors.
They launched the rockets by using a E-Match and blowing down a tube quite hard, about 100yards away in a small bunker. ( I dont know how this works )
I expected it to be like Estes C6's or something but when I saw the launch video , it was more like they were using Econojet F20's, but they did use normal BP motors. The reason they do this is so that when the rocket goes high into the thunder cloud, lightning hits the copper wire, and travels down into a lab where they Analise it.
I just thought this was a interesting way of using model rocket motors.