back to the pad at the bottom left.

Frame grabs from my son’s rocket camera video. More below…

6 responses to “Leaving a Launch Trail”

  1. More frames in sequence (none are clickable)

    Drogue parachute deployment at apogee (it ends up overhead of the camera)
    Screen shot 2011-04-04 at 7.41.04 PM.png
    Second parachute deployment from motor ejection:
    Screen shot 2011-04-04 at 7.44.57 PM.png
    We used blue tape around the bunched shock cord to add some elasticity to the yank:
    Screen shot 2011-04-04 at 7.45.36 PM.png
    The second chute inflates
    Screen shot 2011-04-04 at 7.47.42 PM.png
    Coming down (avoid that river!)
    Screen shot 2011-04-04 at 7.52.03 PM.png
    Mystery dent in purple upper airframe explained: a lower section silver fin happened to land right on top of it…. (need longer shock cord between them to reduce the odds of them both landing in the same spot)
    Screen shot 2011-04-04 at 9.43.24 PM

  2. Very nice.
    He must have been pretty happy.

  3. cool shots and video, looks like a lot of fun for your kid!

  4. iNCREIBLE , MUY BUENA fELICITACIONES

  5. wonderful capture 🙂

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