Flight Log - 2025-06-07 - Hans "Chris" Michielssen's Centuri Alien Encounter Flying Saucer 3/4 Size
3/4 size downscale of the old Centuri kit posted on YORF by Frank Clauch.
Card stock, cereal box and self adhesive paper construction
Bent music wire for the antenna / legs
| Flight Date: | 2025-06-07 |
| Rocket Name: | Centuri Alien Encounter Flying Saucer 3/4 Size |
| Flyer's Name: | Hans "Chris" Michielssen |
| Motors: | C6-3 |
| Expected Altitude: | 200 Feet |
| Launch Site: | Orlando R.O.C.K. |
| Stage | Motor(s) |
|---|---|
| 1 | Estes C6-3 |
It performed as advertised, turning over at apogee and landing on the spring wire legs.
Space X has nothing on this 1976s kit!
Boost was labored but straight up with a C6-3 in the tail.
Centuri 3/4 size U.F.O., Estes C6-3, Orlando ROCK, June 7, 2025
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