Canon EOS 5D
ƒ/6.3
400 mm
1/6,400
640
With the tail still flaming, the red drogue and white main chute start to unfurl. The orange smoke canister continues to free fall.
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3 responses to “Aerial U-Turn”
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Oh, I may have misled… I took a series of shots 1/3 second apart, but I took 30 frames of this particular rocket. For the relative time-stamps, the frame numbers for the five posted shots are:
4757 Launch
4765 Separation
4774 U-Turn (this photo)
4782 Slow Burn
4785 SplashdownI think it might be drag separation from the thrust abruptly ending, and the fins present more drag than the upper sections (physically separating the rocket sections without separation charges detonating). Since both sections of the rocket separated at the same time, it does not look like normal electronics function to me. Not sure about this though.
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Aaah, yes, I see. 10 seconds is definitely a more expected timescale for an aborted flight.
I showed a neighbor your rocket set and he ooohed and ahhhhed.. They’re just getting into bulding a class 1 rocket, I wonder if it’ll push them on to class 2 and 3 more quickly. *grin* I really do hope the ATF stuff gets straightened out.
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