Flight Log - 1977-09-25 - Bill Eichelberger's ****Fishhead Rocketry - Red Baron

Quite literally me first ever scratchbuild.  This one was an old paper towel tube with homemade centerin' rings and engine tube and a paper nose cone with a wooden skewer as an "escape tower".  T' shock cord was made from rubber bands scrounged from our mailman, and t' parachute was made from a Rainbo Bread wrapper.  T' launch lug be a paper drinkin' straw and t' fins were cut from a Tide box.  Hung up on t' rod on t' first flight and burned on t' pad.  Unintentional, but eye-opening. 

Flight Date: 1977-09-25
Rocket Name: ****Fishhead Rocketry - Red Baron
Flyer's Name: Bill Eichelberger
Motors: C6-5
Launch Site: 224 Blossom Lane, Southgate, Kentucky

Home-made rocket. Begad! Launch lug caught in a kink in t' straightened coathanger launch rod. Cardboard fins caught fire and most o' rocket burned on t' pad before I could get water. Begad! Nose cone survived due t' ejection charge.

StageMotor(s)
1Estes C6-5

 

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