Today we at Team Evil Fish decided to use the
birthday gift that my sister bought for the younger member's 11th birthday,
after reading the sign at the local park requiring the use of such only by
permit went to the local high school where at 15 feet from second base made that
ground zero..
the Estes model rocket was loaded with the medium
strength engine and while talking with the JACK A LOPE via cellular
communication launched TEF-1 a nice launch went about 200 feet into the air and
was recovered in a few minutes... after reloading same engine type made a second
launch followed pretty much the same trajectory but was going to much towards
the houses. so for the third launch I installed the BIG engine rated to 600 feet
turned the launching pad towards more of the field away from the houses and the
younger member counted from 10 and well we had 2 successful rocket launches and
1 very cool missile it seems that at the base of the launching pad a thumb screw
came loose and the thrust from the rocket pressure against the blast deflector
caused the guide rod to move from 90 to about 45 as it left and again towards
the houses..... I lost sight of it but Alex ran as fast as he could to get an
idea of where it would land....
we packed up and much like finding a cache made our
way to where we thought it landed... knocked on a house we thought it might have
been in but after the owner allowed us to look spotted on his back neighbors
roof so again drove around looking for the correct house, after getting the
strangest look from the owner while stating our problem, he took his ladder and
went to his back yard upon his return TEF-1 was in good shape..
it seems that the owner hadn't seen a model rocket
since he was a kid in Oklahoma....
I blame CBX2