Rocket Launching of August 17, 2011
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Prelude: Matt Building the Estes Omloid. |
Finishing up |
Getting ready for the launch. |
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Here we are at a field in Upper Gwynedd
PA. Matt loads
an igniter into a
mini-engine for the Streak.
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Testing for wind direction and speed,
Andrea sets off the Streak as the
first launch.
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Now it's time to launch an egg! |
The Estes Omloid |
Is the egg intact?
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Nothing is dripping... |
Ta-DAH! |
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Time to launch Big Betty again,
but this time Orville the
Plastic Parachute Man is aboard. |
TWO parachutes! Orville lives!! |
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Orville will soon be hanging on a "Nail of FAME"
in the garage! |
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Next comes the Omloid, but this time with
a camera taped to the body |
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Now we load four small parachute guys into Big Betty. |
It was a good launch. Two guys floated away
and were lost. Two others somehow hung onto the rocket for dear life. |
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An orange Streak was next launched. This
is what
happens when the nosecone doesn't eject. |
The next rocket had four more small
parachute guys in it. Here, Andrea
launches the rocket and
takes a picture with her phone at the same time. |
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The four blurry colored dots are the last we ever saw of the
parachute men. All floated away. We looked for them, to no
avail. |
The rocket was successfully recovered.
It was a great
rocket launching day, though we lost six good men. |
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