 Members
of team 7158 traveled to the NOVAAR launch site at Great Meadows in
Virginia. It was a nice day with wind around 5mph, but growing
to 10mph.
Objectives
- Flight test Kaboom with an F25-6W
single use.
- Flight test Kaboom with timed
ejection charges at 4.7 seconds.
Lessons
- All ejection charges worked with the
12volt N style battery. Make sure all batteries have 12 volts
before preparation of the rocket.
- We may need to tape the nose cone on
or tighten it up.
- We need a launch checklist and follow
it.
- The launch rail worked great straight
up.
- Choking the chute brought it down a
bit sooner.
- We may have a problem with altimeter
F - order a new one.
- The F52-5T worked best. Order
six more. We also need more 29mm reloadable hardware.
Launches (altimeter
data)
- The nose cone came off in the second
launch giving a false reading
- The altimeter failed in the third
launch
|
Rocket |
Engine |
Cargo |
Chute |
Weight |
Results |
Comments |
Kaboom
Launch 1 |
F52-5T |
egg, timer
altimeter F |
24" and
15" |
790g |
762ft, 55sec
(no video) |
Nice launch, Score 32. |
Kaboom
Launch 2 |
F25-6W |
egg, timer
altimeter F |
24" and
15" |
763g |
637ft, 57sec
(video) |
Nice launch, but the nose cone came
off when the ejection charge fired. Egg broke with free
falling nose cone. |
Kaboom
Launch 3 |
F52-8T |
egg, timer
altimeter F |
24" choked
and
15" |
780g |
About 750ft, 50sec (video) |
Very nice flight, but the altimeter
failed to record. |
Pictures |
