Flight Log - 1977-09-25 - Bill Eichelberger's ****Fishhead Rocketry - Red Baron

Quite literally my first ever scratchbuild.  This one was an old paper towel tube with homemade centering rings and engine tube and a paper nose cone with a wooden skewer as an "escape tower".  The shock cord was made from rubber bands scrounged from our mailman, and the parachute was made from a Rainbo Bread wrapper.  The launch lug was a paper drinking straw and the fins were cut from a Tide box.  Hung up on the rod on the first flight and burned on the pad.  Unintentional, but eye-opening. 

Flight Date: 1977-09-25
Rocket Name: ****Fishhead Rocketry - Red Baron
Flyer's Name: Bill Eichelberger
Motors: C6-5
Launch Site: 224 Blossom Lane, Southgate, Kentucky

Home-made rocket. Launch lug caught in a kink in the straightened coathanger launch rod. Cardboard fins caught fire and most of rocket burned on the pad before I could get water. Nose cone survived due to ejection charge.

StageMotor(s)
1Estes C6-5

 

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