Flight Log - 2015-05-25 - Richard Holmes's Test to Destruction

3 split fins and a nose cone.

Flight Date: 2015-05-25
Rocket Name: Test to Destruction
Flyer's Name: Richard Holmes
Motors: C6-5
Launch Site: Geneseo Airport (MARS site)

I was seeing way too many rockets come down in the wheat field, so I decided to wait and see if the wind would shift. I waited a lot. Finally just before noon with the flag flapping a little further toward the northeast, sometimes, I decided to prep the Test to Destruction with a C6-5. I figured I could stand it if it disappeared, and it’d save me the trouble of repainting the fin I replaced last fall.

The flight was good, though I failed yet again to get a good launch picture — someday I’ll break down and get a more suitable camera, maybe — and the wind carried it, yep, right into the wheat field. Another rocketeer found it, and another rocket of someone else’s. He remarked that he’d rather find his.

StageMotor(s)
1Estes C6-5

 

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