June 25, 2006 launch report (7/24/2006)
On Sunday, June 25th, MASA held its seventh launch of the
year. This was a special "extra" launch.
A few of the flights:
MASA members - please send in your thoughts about the
launch!
Glen Overby writes:
Sunday was a bit windy. I started out with a simple 2-stage
rocket that landed 3/4 the way to the end of the first field.
Hmm, not good news for the 2000'+ "G" flights I planned for the
weekend.
I had another parachute deployment failure on an E18-7. The
ejection charge fired, but the parachute was trapped inside the
tube by a fouled shock cord. I flew a buzzer on that
rocket, but the switch was damaged on impact, and turned off. I
only searched an hour for that rocket, with help from a friend
who came to watch me crash rockets. I finished my day off with
another 2-stage flight on the ring-fin contraption.
The Details:
Full launch tally (in Adobe Acrobat PDF form, requires version
6
or newer of the Acrobat reader)
The totals were: 23 flights, 32 motors. The cumulative
total impulse was 475 Ns with an average total impulse of 14.9 Ns.
The motor breakdown follows:
|
Type |
# Burned |
| MicroMaxx |
0 |
|
1/4A |
0 |
|
1/2A |
1 |
|
A |
2 |
|
B |
9 |
|
C |
6 |
|
D |
11 |
|
E |
2 |
|
F |
0 |
|
G |
1 |
|
H |
0 |
(Alan Estenson)
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