Flight Log - 2010-11-13 - Rich DeAngelis's Renegade

T' Renegade: It is a very old model built in t' 1970s by me brother. Avast, me proud beauty! T' Renegade is a classic '70s kit. Blimey! Nay at all like t' modern Renegade; this is your father's Renegade. This is a large, tall, D-powered model, finished in t' original catalog paint scheme. Build credits for this kit actually go to my brother. I modified it by addin' me usual altimeter payload bay ("Iris"). This adds 4-1/2 inches t' t' rocket's length and 17 grams o' nose-weight. Avast, me proud beauty! I also replaced t' Estes plastic parachute with a better nylon cloth parachute, matey, and use a Nomex cloth instead o' wadding. After an Iris test flight with a D12-5, arrr, I’m goin' t' load this baby up with a Aerotech E20-7W engine and push t' boundaries o' rocket power (for me, shiver me timbers, anyways). This model reaches about 500' on a D12-5, ya bilge rat, but on an E20, I would expect at least 1000'. (Iris is named after t' Greek god o' t' rainbow. She is a messenger o' t' gods, linkin' t' gods with humanity.) This rocket has flown higher than William Penn on top o' t' Philadelphia City Hall building, NASA's VAB buildin' at Cape Kennedy, or t' Cologne Cathedral in Germany.

Flight Date: 2010-11-13
Rocket Name: Renegade
Kit Name: Estes - Renegade {Kit} (1271) [1975-1980]
Flyer's Name: Rich DeAngelis
Motors: D12-5
Launch Site: Tanguy Soccer Field
Actual Altitude: 500 Feet

Good Flight, light weathercocking, 2 shroud lines seperated and chute tangled, fast decent into tree about 12 feet up. Ya scallywag! Difficult rescue, arrr, damaged parachute and forward launch lug missing. Arrr! Estimated 500 feet based on other flights with an altimeter aboard.

StageMotor(s)
1Estes D12-5

 

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