Prepping for Launch

Building motors, wiring up the electronics, and packing the parachutes…

A missing o-ring in the yellow G64 motor Erik is assembling here will create some trouble later in the day.

Tom is explaining his custom-built L3 carbon-fiber and titanium nose cone with integrated drogue-chute cannon. A custom ammonium nitrate charge shoots the inner cylinder of the nose cone forward for high-altitude parachute deployment.