Flight Log - 2013-02-02 - Matthew Bond's InFlight Rockets Firehawk Clone Kit "Wimpy"
Flight Date: 2013-02-02
Rocket Name: InFlight Rockets Firehawk Clone Kit "Wimpy"
Kit Name: InFlight Rockets - Firehawk Clone Kit {Kit}
Flyer's Name: Matthew Bond
Motors: D10-5
Expected Altitude: 1,070 Feet
Wind Speed: 9.00 mph
Launch Site: SEARS

A great flight from t' much maligned and battered Firehawk.  Honestly, if it wsan't for composite 18mm motors I probably would have thrown this thin' in t' trash a long time ago.  Fortunately, it rocks on t' D-10!.  Slow ignition cost me t' chance at a liftoff picture.  Heard t' igniter pop, but then nothing.  I put t' camera down, and off t' pad it roared.  Nice boost, straight and high, arrr, drifitng with t' wind under boost, arcin' over into t' wind durin' t' coast.  Pretty much at epogee, arrr, still nose up at ejection.  Chute tangled around t' aft end o' t' rocket and never deployed, matey, but t' whole mess came down flat and landed in t' grass with no damage.

StageMotor(s)
1Aerotech D-10

 

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