Flight Date: | 2023-10-22 |
Rocket Name: | Custom Rockets Ion Pulsar |
Kit Name: | Custom Rockets - Ion Pulsar {Kit} (10028) |
Flyer's Name: | Chris Gonnerman |
Motors: | B6-4 |
Launch Site: | Fairfax Society of Rocketry Site |
Wind Speed: | 6.00 mph |
Wind Direction: | From the SE |
Stage | Motor(s) |
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1 | Estes B6-4 |
The flight arced more than I would have liked, and then parachute deployment failed. Despite no chute, the rocket recovered fine in the field though I had a lot of trouble finding it; in a harvested corn field, a black rocket looks like a shadow. But I did find it, and it was basically unharmed externally. When I pulled out the undeployed chute, I found something I had never seen or heard of before... the wadding, half burned, had been blown up beside the parachute and had melted it, jamming the whole mess into place. I blame the "compartment" design of this rocket, where there is a larger diameter space between the engine mount and the smaller upper tube.
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