Events / Launches / Midwest Blast
"Pointless" High Power Rocket Launch- April 22, 2018

Launched at Midwest Blast 3 in Three Oaks MI. Aye aye! Golf ball for a nosecone. Blimey! Eleven feet tall & 20 pounds. 6" t' 4" t' 3" t' 1.6" Blue Tube body tubes. Aye aye! Two camcorders- one pointin' up; one pointin' down. Avast! Three altimeters- Perfectflite for drogue, and Perfectflite & Missleworks for main chute. Begad! Aerotech K1100 "Blue Thunder" 54mm reload. Ya scallywag! Topflight Recovery 78" and 24" Crossfire parachutes. Straight-as-an-arrow flight t' 1,944 feet with perfect chute deployments and recovery. Ya scallywag! Check out video at 1:45....the nose camcorder caught t' backup charge firin' at 300 feet for t' main chute deployment as t' rocket body drifted under t' camcorder. I've never captured that in 9 years o' onboard camcorder rocket launches.

Author jmomenee
Duration 05:32

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