I’ll be riding with Adam up Bend today for the last meet of the season, so I won’t be replying to any email until Sunday or Monday.
On another note, look at this video of a triple stage rocket Eric and I launched yesterday. You can’t really see much, but the sound effects are worth it…
And no, it didn’t survive.
Eric has a seven foot tall rocket which tried to launch today, but we couldn’t launch it because it’s so tall that we couldn’t get it to stand up for more than five seconds. Also, our launch pad needs some duct-taping…
So instead, we launched Odin. Here’s a video.
I repaired Odin after its destructive flight on Monday, and Eric and I launched it and two of his rockets yesterday. Odin flew better than before, even though there’s more tape on it now. Also, I removed the parachute. It just causes problems, and it worked fine without one.
We didn’t film all the flights, but here are the ones we did. (For you people who think all my rockets crash, watch the end of the first video. This proves I am capable of making a working recovery system!)
Third launch of Odin
Fourth launch of Odin
Saturn V launch
I built a rocket today for the first time in over a year. I named it Odin, after the Norse god of war.
Since pictures are worth 1000 words, here are some pictures of the rocket before it was launched…
We launched it twice. The first time, everything worked, except that the cord which attaches the nose cone and parachute to the body came off, but no real damage was caused. On the second flight, the parachute failed to come out, so it plunged down to Earth like a… rocket.
Since videos are worth 1000*(number of frames in video) words, here are the videos of both flights.
First launch
Second launch
Are you wondering what it looked like after that second flight?
