A fine first flight with a strap-on video cam that captured some sights on the NASA Ames base from above. The mouseover notes on the photo link to ground photos from prior visits.
Launch photo sequence below….
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Getting the girls excited about rockets…
Launch… kicking the launch pin into the bucket… and thermal ripples in the air…
Climbing, while looking down at the ants below… I’m standing on the white line with a friend.
A clean Blue Thunder propellant
But the 8-second delay was too long, and he rocket made a sickening ballistic dive before finally popping the parachute…
I reinforced the body tube from shock cord zippers, so this first flight went wonderfully well, with almost no damage to the airframe (she just needed a new strip of duct tape at the top of the lower body tube).
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