Canon PowerShot SD700 IS
ƒ/5.6
5.8 mm
1/1,600
On the V2.0 lawn dart, only the rear closure and parachute survived. The ballistic impact popped most of the paint off the nose cone.
On the LOC NORAD lawn dart, the motor was fine, but the videocamera was destroyed. The SD card survived, but unfortunately, had no video of the dramatic failure… (I think the Oregon Scientific ATC2K records to DRAM, and then burns the flash memory once the movie is complete. If the recording is interrupted by a power failure, nothing gets transferred to the SD card. I am open to suggestions of strap-on-videocams that record straight to flash…)
Funny note: I was able to bring everything back on a commercial flight… except the huge L730 motor tube, which TSA told me could be used as a billy club.
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