Aris Diablo Scratch Rocket J800 Blue Thunder (2011-12-11)

Recorded on November 12, 2011 using a Flip Video camera. The poor mic in the flip camera makes it seem as if there are high winds. The mic does not do the rocket justice as to how loud it was. The motor is made to have a small blue flame, little smoke, but be incredibly loud. Anyways, nice boost to 7500 feet with a slight weathercock that you can see if you slow the movie down. The rocket went about .85 mach and utilized an anti-zipper design.

Polecat Aerospace 5.5 Nike Smoke Dual Deploy On An Aerotech K550 White Lightning (2011-12-31)

Recorded on October 6, 2010 using a Flip Video camera. If you just want to see the launch skip to 2:53. It was my rocket that actually crashed the following month on an Aerotech K700 W. The flight was on a Aerotech K 550 White Lightning Motor. Electronic dual deploy recovery. I cant remember exactly because this was last year but I believe that the G-wiz LCX beeped out 5100 feet Air-Ground-level. Perfect Recovery :). My grandma took the video & and my dad took the pictures.

Polecat Aerospace JR. Thumper 5.5" Aerotech K695 Redline (2011-12-31)

Used a perfectflite Stratologger for deployment. Very easy to use in comparison to a G-wiz LCX. The ematch for the main chute showed no continuity owhen I powered the altimeter up on the pad. The cause was that the ematch was faulty. To fix this we switched the main and drogue ematches around causing the main to instead pop out at apogee. The rocket still only drifted maybe 200 feet due to nearly zero wind. Perfect launch, and perfect single deployment. This was the last launch of the day and many people got involved to get the stupid motor to light. The beginning shows the two ground tests that we recorded and were for the drogue parachute compartment. We did one ground test for the main with 3 shear pins at 1.5 grams which worked great. Date: December 10, 2011 4:30p.m. Motor: Aerotech K695 Redline with plugged forward closure Max Altitude: 7710 feet (2350 metres) Max speed: will find out when I download all information gathered from altimeter. Main ejection charge: 1.75 grams (added a little for peace of mind)