FORTH FLIGHT

Planning to launch this little rocket beyond mach 1.3 next year. Will start with a medium 4 grain motor and ramp it up to a 6 grain and later on with a 6XL motor (December 09, 2015).

It might not survive the mach 1.30 flight...... so stay tuned and be amazed. Since the motor ejection time is close to Apogee, I will have to set the Stratologger Apogee +3 seconds. I will keep the motor ejection charge operational and stratologger as backup to be safe.

Its really a pain getting those charges connected and filled up.. Can't see me doing this on the field !

The 4 grain motors are listed.

http://www.pro38.com/pdfs/Pro38Instns.pdf

UPDATE 01/09/2016 - No Go, heavy fog in the morning an during the whole day. Nearly no wind on the field ! Should have been a perfect launch day !

Rocketstar was also on the field that day, so we had some excitement with them as they were performing one static test and a launch to around 700 feet.

Annual meeting was scheduled later in the afternoon, pads closed down around 1.00 PM

Bought my motor already from Bernie with a discount... an I223-14 SK

UPDATE 02/10/2016 - Rocket is all prepped again and ready to fly.

UPDATE 02/12/2016 - Still very windy conditions on the field, might not happen, hoping for the best.

UPDATE 02/14/2016 - Had a successful flight with the ToMach that day and a long recovery and also Tim's recovery. Will fly that rocket next time.

UPDATE 03/12/2016 - Had a very successful flight with the Thunderstruck that day on the far away cell, so no flight for this one, Will fly in April for sure.

UPDATE 04/07/2016 - Rocket all prepped. Motor is in the 6 grain casing (4 Grain motor)... There is no space on the nozzle, all seems to lock in nice, the other times I had like a few mm of spacing, but this motor looks in all the way. Put some grease on the motor as well, did slide in smooth...

UPDATE 04/09/2016 - No Launch yet ! Stratologger had a weird beep out so I took it of the rail and took it home to examine closely, When home I took it apart and it all worked fine.

UPDATE 04/10/2016 - Launch day - Countdown was fast, Greg is really not the guy to do this, Could not even grab a decent image of the launch !!! And not even a video at all !! Dam Greg !!! Any way it went up fast en straight !! Really beautiful, I even saw a puff at Apogee and was confirmed by Tim also, BUT no deployment! Nothing not even the motor ejection worked !!! I made an autopsy video to see what could have gone wrong !!! Tagg and Stratologger all destroyed !! Rocket not repairable ! THIS IS THE END, was a great rocket and have good memories of it ! AMEN !...

UPDATE 04/18/2016 - Because it was such a great flight to Apogee I added the altitude to the total. Feel a little bad by doing this, but it was her best flight ever !!