Hi everyone ,
Im a rocket newbie and have just had my first taste of rocket launching this weekend. A freind of mine had received an Estes Code Red from a mutual freind of ours and all three of us went off to a large open area we know of to carry out three launches using Estes C6-5 motors.
Launch 1 and 2 appeared to go off pretty flawlessly though we quickly apreciated that you cant have enough space in which to recover your rocket !
There was only very very light winds and we guess that the rocket would have achieved the guide altitude of 180m, but the distance to the landing point seemed to be about 300-400 away !
Perhaps someone can tell me what happened on launch 3 ? The rocket seemed to launch cleanly , but had a curved angle of flight and then after the delay burnt through the motor gave off quite a flash/pop. The recovery wasnt very clean at all , the chute didnt deploy well and when it landed , only about 15m from the launch site it became apparent that most of the chute lines had burned away.
What caused the recovery phase to occur like this ? Do the top charges in motors sometimes POP dramatically, was the curved trajectory indicative of something wrong with the motor ? Was there a newbie error we made somewhere which caused the nosecone to resist the recovery charge ?
** EDIT START**
The rocket carried the same amount of wadding on each trip and was packed in a similar manner.
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Not a major disaster but it would be nice to know if this was one of those things that just happens or if you guys have seen this before and know how to prevent it !
In the meanwhile , I think Im going to be looking to get a rocket of my own !
Paul
Im a rocket newbie and have just had my first taste of rocket launching this weekend. A freind of mine had received an Estes Code Red from a mutual freind of ours and all three of us went off to a large open area we know of to carry out three launches using Estes C6-5 motors.
Launch 1 and 2 appeared to go off pretty flawlessly though we quickly apreciated that you cant have enough space in which to recover your rocket !
There was only very very light winds and we guess that the rocket would have achieved the guide altitude of 180m, but the distance to the landing point seemed to be about 300-400 away !
Perhaps someone can tell me what happened on launch 3 ? The rocket seemed to launch cleanly , but had a curved angle of flight and then after the delay burnt through the motor gave off quite a flash/pop. The recovery wasnt very clean at all , the chute didnt deploy well and when it landed , only about 15m from the launch site it became apparent that most of the chute lines had burned away.
What caused the recovery phase to occur like this ? Do the top charges in motors sometimes POP dramatically, was the curved trajectory indicative of something wrong with the motor ? Was there a newbie error we made somewhere which caused the nosecone to resist the recovery charge ?
** EDIT START**
The rocket carried the same amount of wadding on each trip and was packed in a similar manner.
** EDIT END**
Not a major disaster but it would be nice to know if this was one of those things that just happens or if you guys have seen this before and know how to prevent it !
In the meanwhile , I think Im going to be looking to get a rocket of my own !
Paul