[tccrockets] Re: Nike-Nike smoke
- From: James Dougherty <jafrado@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: TCC chat <tccrockets@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 11:41:50 -0700
Anyone get any pictures or video of this acrobatic cuckoo bird? :-)
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 7:44 PM, James Dougherty <jafrado@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Sorry, forgot #3 was that I should have ditched the blue-tape and gone for
> shearpins like I did on the ISC/Booster.
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> On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 7:43 PM, James Dougherty <jafrado@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
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>> Booster lit, drag separated, sustainer did not light and nose-cone
>> ejected.
>>
>> Still doing some forensics, but right now it's pretty clear that it
>> failed for three, completely ridiculous reasons: 1) I did not have the
>> igniter taped in, so it got yanked out on separation, (really felt like an
>> ass when I sat down on the tape in my pocket) 2) I forgot vent-holes so the
>> baros never saw apogee :(
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>> All said and done, the rocket gods smiled on me, I lost a Nose-cone,
>> Marsa54, and a GPS-1 ... all of the rest of the airframe and most
>> importantly, the ISC are in working order.
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>> I plant to fly it (correctly this time) at OS after some Blackrock
>> adventures.
>>
>> Of course, I learned you can't be the TCC club President and be 5-9's
>> succesful with a complex rocket launch so next time, I will definitely be
>> recruiting some of y'all for review :-)
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