Neil Brown Wocket 2

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Author:jcara17
Published:2009-10-08 16:38:36

This launch is of a Polecat Aerospace Wocket! The Wocket is a flying saucer like rocket that just falls back to Earth with out a parachute after reaching apogee or the peak of flight. In this situation the motor did not come up to pressure as it should have causing a spectacular burn on the pad. Considering this is a 'sparky' style motor it has metal flakes mixed in with the propellant to give the shower of sparks effect. Because the rocket stayed on the pad so long the very hot metal sparks actually burned a hole into the blast deflector! You can see the motor exhaust burn through just before the saucer lifts off the pad. The rocket had little damage and no one was hurt although the announcer would have you believe that was possible. Overall, the flight rated 'very cool'!

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