Just got done launching with my kids this evening, a windless day in West Texas, which is about a real rarity, so I told the boys to grab a rocket and we were gonna launch. We took a Quest Courier, Astrosat LSX, and Wacky Wiggler (a real waste of cardboard and plastic). Anyway...several of the rockets got to apogee and nosed over and were in gravity acceleration mode when the recovery charge launched the chutes. Have been launching off and on for the last year, it never really occured to me before: Should the recovery charge ignite before or after apogee? All the rockets recovered fine, but it got me to thinking.
Thanks in advance!
Doug
PS: the egg didn't make it
Thanks in advance!
Doug
PS: the egg didn't make it