Luv2launch
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I have this Commanche 3 it was the first rocket that I bought when i became a BAR.When I was young I always wanted one but I was always afraid of D powered rockets because I didn't really have a field big enough to launch them.So when I got back into it it was the first bird I picked up it has lived a very tragic life.Its first flight was single stage on an A8-3 just to test it out then it was loaded up with a C6-0 and an A8-5 that was left over from my younger days of rocketry and the wind blew the pad over and cracked off a launch lug.Its second flight after the repairs again was a flight on an A8-3 then again loaded up with the C6-0 and A8-5 this time it made it off the pad but broke a fin on landing.Its next flights went very similar breaking fins off the sustainer and the second stage on recovery.It's only 3 stage flight to date on the boost it shredded a fin off of the D powered stage which cuased it to arc over quite a bit and I thought it was lost but I found the sustainer and took about an hours search to find the two lower stages.Then again today I went out hoping to load it up for a fair well 3 stage flight and on transport it cracked another fin on the sustainer.This poor thing is jinxed its my most repaired rocket ever.Anyone ever have a bird like that?