The Ricochet: The Ricochet is another design inspired by air defense missiles. It has a reducer to a long, thin payload section. It is an easy, modern kit. Instead of regular gloss, I used a metallic blue paint, and painted some silver rings around the tube heads, and clear coated the entire model after the decals were added. The payload section has vent holes for use with a barometric altimeter. I like this bird, it's tall but pretty light, and it travels pretty far on smaller motors. This rocket has flown higher than the Time Warner Center Towers in NY, and the Bell Atlantic Tower in Philadelphia. From sea-level it could have flown over the towers of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
| Flight Date: | 2012-05-06 |
| Rocket Name: | Ricochet |
| Kit Name: | Estes - Richocet {Kit} (003208) |
| Flyer's Name: | Rich DeAngelis |
| Motors: | C6-7 |
| Expected Altitude: | 750.00 Feet |
| Wind Speed: | 3.00 mph |
| Launch Site: | Penn Manor School Lancaster PA |
| Actual Altitude: | 789.00 Feet |
For the Ricochet's second flight of the day, it was time to send this bird far away with its second flight on a C6 motor. This time I selected a 7 second delay in an attempt to reach a record altitude. After ignition it accelerated to a peak of 11.4Gs, burned for 2.3 seconds averaging 2.8Gs for the burn. This allowed the model to reach a speed of 143 mph before coasting for 5.3 seconds to apogee.
During this coast it shattered it's old altitude record and turned-over at 789 feet. It fell for 1.2 seconds after that and the ejection was only 28 feet below apogee. Again the modified chute opened cleanly and the model descended at 9 mph to land within about 200 feet of the launch pad. Overall a very successful flight of 62.9 seconds.
| Stage | Motor(s) |
|---|---|
| 1 | C6-7 |
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