Flight Log - 2012-06-25 - Bob Francis's Saturn 8
Flight Date: 2012-06-25
Rocket Name: Saturn 8
Kit Name: Estes - Patriarch {Kit} (1895) [2006-2008]
Flyer's Name: Bob Francis
Motors: C6-5
Wind Speed: 20.00 mph
Launch Site: Cul-de-sac, Belvidere, IL
Actual Altitude: 700.00 Feet

Time: 7:11 pm.  Temperature: 73 degrees.  Wind variable from the north at 10 - 20 mph.  Clear, sunny.  Launched with Altimeter Two onboard.  Waited about 5 minutes for wind to die down.  High flight.  Lost sight due to sun.  Parachute did deploy and open.  Rocket drifted down towards the southwest.  1 hour search failed to locate the rocket.  Used videotape to locate the rocket.  Bob found on 6/26 after two minute search.  No damage to the rocket.  Altimeter Two recorded data for the flight.

Apogee: 700 feet.

Maximum Speed: 126 mph.

Burn Time: 2.0 seconds.

Peak Acceleration: 11.1 g.

Average Acceleration: 2.9 g.

Coast to Apogee Time: 5.8 seconds.

Apogee to Eject Time: -1.9 seconds.

Ejection Altitude: 610 feet.

Descent Speed: 13 mph.

Flight Duration: 37.2 seconds.

 

StageMotor(s)
1Estes C6-5

 

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