Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Second Launch

My group’s second launch went very well. Although we had added nothing to the bottle it still flew extremely high. One thing that I noticed about the bottle right after launching was that it was spinning uncontroably. I believe that the water bottle was still very unbalanced even though we added a point and flaps for aerodynamics. I also noticed that the bottle was in the air a lot shorter than our first launch. This is most likely due to the fact that our bottle was too heavy and unbalanced or that we added too much water before the launch. Perhaps if we make a lighter more balanced design, our next launch will be more successful.

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