The teams celebrated Bernadette's birthday at McDonalds.   And Ted flew his Bat Rocket for one final flight (video).

Objectives

• Try out the new hemispherical chutes with spill hole.
• Give some new members experience with the launch process..
• Continue testing with the E30 motors for under 400g rockets.
• Try recovery of booster and cargo units with one chute.

Lessons

• The hemispherical chutes worked great. They appear to have less wind drift.
• The descent rates are too slow if you deploy at apogee.  We need to come up with ideas here.
• The chute was too tightly wrapped on second Red rocket flight. Full deployment was delayed.
• The CATO with the E30-7T may have been caused by the Quest Q2G2 igniters.  We need more research.  We also need to report the CATO to NAR and Aerotech.
• The E30 motors seem to reach 750ft with 400g in light wind.  The F24 will be needed if we go over 400g.
• When you have a separate booster recovery, always use a very small chute or streamer for the booster.
• We need to return to the launch site to try a recovery of the Black rocket booster.