Launch Report from 04/17/21
Estes Mini Mean Machine - A10-3T - Success. Good flight, good landing, downscales are at least as fun as upscales.
NewWay Cornered - 2X C6-5 - Failure. CATO on both motors as far as I could tell. Probably from the same batch that blew in my Fat Boy at Red Glare. I don't have any more C6-5's so next time I'll have fresh ones. Rocket is okay.
Estes Sasha - D12-5 - Success. Dang this one got up there even without the booster. I was really glad too that I flew it without the booster. It almost landed in the trees and landed about 20 feet short of the trees with the wind blowing directly into them. I had actually resigned myself to losing it when I was watching it come down and was elated when it dropped below the treetops and was still clearly in front of the tress.
Fliskits Deuces Wild - 2x B6-4 - Success. Good flight with twin smoke trails.
NewWay 2x4 - C11-0 to A8-5 - Partial Success. Something happened at staging and the sustainer took off sideways and almost hit the ground before the parachute came out. Not a total success but the rocket is okay so I'll take it.
Fliskits Diminutive Deuce - 2x MicroMaxx II - Partial Success. Good flight with both motors lighting, less-than-ideal landing with the streamer failing to come out of the body. The rocket is fine though.
Sunward Penguin - C11-5 - Success. Built by my wife. Good flight but I wish it had landed just on the near side of the irrigation ditch rather than the far side.
Fliskits Goddard L-13 - C6-3 - Success. Flies really nicely but I think the -5 would have been too long a delay. I was really happy not to lose any of the styrene rail pieces.
Boyce Gemini-Titan - 2x D16-4 - Failure. Parachute on top part did not open, parachute on bottom part did not come out. Probably left the parachutes packed for too long. Repairable but still depressing after anticipating flying this for so long.
Estes Little Joe 1 - C5-3 - Success. First successful flight with a C5-3 after two failed ones. Good flight with good landing that left the tower intact.
LOC Deployer - G75M - Failure. Stratologger CF worked perfectly but main parachute did not open and rocket hit the ground hard. Fins have broken plies and will require repair. Probably going to replace the parachute with a thin-mill one that won't have to be compressed as hard to fit into the short payload tube.
Dyna-Star Flamethrower - 2x E12-6 - Partial Success. Too-hastily adding the chute release was probably not a great idea. The chute release opened as it usually does but failed to release the parachute. Rocket is miraculously intact though.