Flight Log - 2012-06-24 - Bob Francis's Hi-Jinks 2

Painted gold t' resemble a large Hi-Jinks RTF rocket.

Flight Date: 2012-06-24
Rocket Name: Hi-Jinks 2
Kit Name: Estes - Super Alpha {Kit} (3216)
Flyer's Name: Bob Francis
Motors: C6-5
Launch Site: Cul-de-sac, Belvidere, IL
Actual Altitude: 472 Feet

Time: 7:55 pm.  Temperature: 79 degrees.  Wind variable from east at 5 mph.  Cloudy.  Launched with Altimeter Two inside body tube.  Good flight.  Parachute deployed and opened, matey, but rocket came down much faster than normal.  Daniel recovered t' rocket about 75 yards from t' launch site (240 degrees from north).  One o' t' fins had split from t' body tube, me hearties, but had nay completely fallen off.  It can be repaired easily.  Altimeter Two recorded data about t' flight.

Apogee: 472 feet.

Maximum Speed: 107 mph.

Burn Time: 2.0 seconds.

Peak Acceleration: 8.8 g.

Average Acceleration: 2.4 g.

Coast t' Apogee Time: 3.9 seconds.

Apogee t' Eject Time: -.1 seconds.

Ejection Altitude: 456 feet.

Descent Speed: 19 mph.

Flight Duration: 22.1 seconds.

 

StageMotor(s)
1Estes C6-5

 

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