Flight Log - 2012-07-25 - Bob Francis's Mega Mosquito
Flight Date: 2012-07-25
Rocket Name: Mega Mosquito
Kit Name: Estes - Mosquito {Kit} (0801, TK-1) [1971-2011]
Flyer's Name: Bob Francis
Motors: D12-5
Wind Speed: 6.00 mph
Launch Site: Lincoln School, Belvidere, IL
Actual Altitude: 380.00 Feet

Time: 7:45 pm.  Temperature: 90.5.  Wind: 6 mph from 200 degrees.  Weather: Sunny with scattered clouds.  First use of digital thermometer / wind meter.

Launched with Altimeter Two onboard.  Good flight.  Visible throughout.  Parachute deployed and opened.  Wind carried rocket back and ended up landing on the shoulder of Route 20, about 130 yards, 40 degrees from the launch site.  Daniel recovered.  The parachute broke one string that will need to be repaired.  A later inspection showed one fin had cracked.  Repaired.  Altimeter Two recorded data about flight.

Apogee: 380 feet.

Maximum Speed: 101 mph.

Burn Time: 1.6 seconds.

Peak Acceleration: 9.4 G.

Average Acceleration: 2.9 G.

Coast to Apogee Time: 4.0 seconds.

Apogee to Eject Time: -.1 seconds.

Ejection Altitude: 369 feet,

Descent Speed: 12 mph.

Flight Duration: 26.0 seconds.

StageMotor(s)
1Estes D12-5

 

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