Engineer Kelly
03-30-2008, 04:27 PM
Saturday March 29 around 3:00 pm i launched my clustered Astron Cobra (Three C6-3's)
Early afternoon rain shower with NW winds. Later that afternoon it was clear with slight East winds.
I walked down through the cow pasture to the launch field and setup. I picked up a rock off the ground to send up in the payload section. I ignited the motors and up it went. Not very straight though.
The parachute deployed (something looked wrong though). The chute had become wadded. It still came back safely though. Only two motors fired and i guess thats why it didnt fly straight and the chute looked like it had been burned and little. The shroud lines were all wadded up too. I dont think i had enough wadding in the tube.
Im not sure what went wrong with the motor not igniting though. I couldnt find the igniter. Maybe it wasnt touching the propellant.
Im going to launch it again soon though.
Early afternoon rain shower with NW winds. Later that afternoon it was clear with slight East winds.
I walked down through the cow pasture to the launch field and setup. I picked up a rock off the ground to send up in the payload section. I ignited the motors and up it went. Not very straight though.
The parachute deployed (something looked wrong though). The chute had become wadded. It still came back safely though. Only two motors fired and i guess thats why it didnt fly straight and the chute looked like it had been burned and little. The shroud lines were all wadded up too. I dont think i had enough wadding in the tube.
Im not sure what went wrong with the motor not igniting though. I couldnt find the igniter. Maybe it wasnt touching the propellant.
Im going to launch it again soon though.