Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Launch Day 5

Today was our last launch date. We needed at least a air time of 10 secs today with the same modifications as day number four. Today we decided to make a new rocket with the same modifications but with a new bottle because our old bottle was warped and we thought something might be wrong with it. So today we added wings and a bigger parachute to our new bottle. Our launch fuel was laundry detergent with water today and the weather conditions today were very bad. It was very rainy and windy today so that affected our launch. Our first launch we did was slightly successful. Our rocket flew very high in the air with an airtime of 7 secs but while in the air our parachute did not open. We thought that when we put the rocket on the fuel pump we pushed the nose cone on to tight. So we went back to class to make better modifications to our rocket. On our second launch we made sure that our nose was looser so it would be able to come off. With that being said our second launch was a complete failure as our rocket flew on top of the auditorium roof and got stuck. We will try again tomorrow making two sets of rockets and hopefully one of them work.

1 comment:

  1. Your guys rocket is nuts too bad the weather was uncooperative. I actually felt like copying you guys the entire project because your rockets went super high

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