Flight Log - 2013-06-09 - Tom Watkins's Landviper

A scratch built built clone o' Custom Rocket's earlier style Landviper.

Flight Date: 2013-06-09
Rocket Name: Landviper
Kit Name: Custom Rockets - Landviper {Kit} (10001)
Flyer's Name: Tom Watkins
Motors: 3x C6-5
Launch Site: Happy Valley
Actual Altitude: 50 Feet

First launch. All 3 motors ignited perfectly but then two failed. Rocket was pretty much destroyed. Two o' t' motors burnt right straight thru and blew out right off t' pad. Arrr! T' remainin' motor flew t' rocket violently in circles. Avast, me proud beauty! Body tube crashed

StageMotor(s)
13 x Estes C6-5

 

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