| June 23, 2001 NMSU tailgating lot ROCKET: Yellow Jacket LAUNCH: 30 MOTOR USED: B4-4 SUMMARY: Great flight and recovery. Short walk to landing site (about 60'). ROCKET: Yellow Jacket LAUNCH: 31 MOTOR USED: B4-4 SUMMARY: Another excellent launch. Again, no parachute troubles. Must be my lucky day or something. ROCKET: Yellow Jacket LAUNCH: 32 MOTOR USED: B4-4 SUMMARY: Great launch and landing, but I soon discovered that one of the fin joints needs to be fixed again. Good thing YJ is done for the day; I ran out of motors for it. ROCKET: Y.I.F.F. I LAUNCH: 4 MOTOR USED: D12-5 SUMMARY: This is the first launch in three weeks, due to the fact that it took so long to find the motors for it. Regardless, it had a wonderful flight and recovery. I don't think I packed the recovery wadding as well as I could because the ejection charge left two small holes in the parachute. Still flyable. ROCKET: Y.I.F.F. I LAUNCH: 5 MOTOR USED: D12-5 SUMMARY: Good take-off, but a nasty recovery. Not because it didn't get damaged, but it flew in an arc and landed on the road. If the motor had a longer delay, it would have ended up on I-25 and gotten hit by those two oncoming 18-wheelers. Almost got run over by a passing car. ROCKET: Y.I.F.F. I LAUNCH: 6 MOTOR USED: D12-5 SUMMARY: Another arcing flight, this time towards the stadium. That was a LONG motor delay, so long I thought it was going to lawn dirt on the road. Instead the parachute ejected when the rocket was nose cone down and it landed a good 50' short of the pavement. Time to go home; this 97 degree heat is getting to me. DAMAGE REPORT: Small holes in Y.I.F.F. I parachute, but still fully functional. |