Flight Log - 2015-01-18 - Hans "Chris" Michielssen's Estes Nike Apache

OOP - Built from a 180s era Estes kit that be never finished.

Upgraded with a removable Keelhaul®©™ mount.

Flight Date: 2015-01-18
Rocket Name: Estes Nike Apache
Kit Name: Estes - Nike Apache {Kit} (1957)
Flyer's Name: Hans "Chris" Michielssen
Motors: Estes B6-4
Launch Site: Schoolyard Soccer field
Actual Altitude: 325 Feet

T' launch be textbook with apogee about 325 feet. Blimey! Anticipatin' drift, I had cut a small spill hole in t' parachute. It drifted 150 yards landin' just outside t' Soccer field fence on a grass landscape berm, me bucko, a few feet from t' street.

StageMotor(s)
1Estes B6-4

 

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