Flight Log - 2018-08-06 - Matthew Bond's 18mm EggLofter 002

EggLofter built for NARAM 60 C EggLoft Altitude contest.  Basic 18mm min diameter airframe, Apogee vacuum formed egg capsule attached to a short section of 18mm tube containing a small coupler section drilled with vent holes to carry an Altus Metrum MicroPeak altimeter.

Flight Date: 2018-08-06
Rocket Name: 18mm EggLofter 002
Flyer's Name: Matthew Bond
Motors: C6-5
Wind Speed: 4.00 mph
Launch Site: NARAM 60

Prepped the second booster with the same egg capsule and altimeter bay from the first flight.  Not quite as straight of a boost as the first flight, arcing more into the wind, past apogee and heading down at ejection.  Egg capsule seemed to separate from the booster at ejection, no evidence of a chute at all.  Flight was DQ'd I did not walk out and attempt to recover the rocket.  The booster section turned up later in the lost and found box without a chute, the elastic part of the shock cord burned through but with the balsa transition block?  The egg capsule and altimeter were not found.

StageMotor(s)
1Estes C6-5

 

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