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"Pointless" High Power Rocket Launch- April 22, 2018

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

Author jmomenee
Duration 05:32

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