Ye Olde Rocket Forum - View Single Post - Painfully short launch - B6-4 Field

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Originally Posted by A Fish Named Wallyum

I've seen several others get run down on access roads and small country byways. Considering all the years that I've flown next to a major US highway, I'm not doing bad at all. Once in 43 years.

No, that’s not a bad record at all.

And all kidding aside, that has to be a bit of slow motion nightmare seeing a rocket under chute drifting towards traffic on a road or highway. As you say, a rocket is an easy thing to replace, but car damage is quite a bit more expensive, or worse yet (my biggest fear) would be for a driver to over-react to the descending rocket and run off the road/crash/hit someone else, etc., and then it gets really, really scary.

Of those possible alternatives, a rocket is a small cost to pay...but it does always hurt just a bit to loose one.

Earl