Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Fifth Launch
Our fifth launch was an epic fail. The weather didn't cooperate and we had to use a second hand bottle that was warped. This rocket however was longer in length compared to our previous rockets. I was almost certain our rocket was gonna trump the competition because our design was good. When we went to launch our rocket the wind kept blowing our nose cone off to the side and we were never able to get off a good launch. The string that attached our nose cone to the rocket was too short so our parachute was unable to deploy because the nose cone was trapping it (if that makes sense). We also believe or at least I believe that the soapy detergent we used today made our rocket further more suck. All in all today was horrible and as the saying goes "when in doubt, no go out"!!! For all the people who got the 10 seconds today we hope you get sick from being in the rain today. Peace. One Love.
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My group had the same problem with the nose cone trapping the parachute. If your string attached to the nose cone is longer than the string attaching your parachute, it works pretty well. Hopefully you guys can launch again though because your designs from before were really good and managed to get super high.
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