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Setup and Practice This rocket was brought as a set of spare parts rather than anything else but we flew it anyway! Launch. |
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Reclaiming the remains Fuel storage. |
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Round One Setting up. The right hand rocket contains the smaller parachute and the camera while the right hand one carries only the larger 'chute. Pumping.... |
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...still pumping. Of course we know what's going on! The timer on the right hand rocket triggered during pumping so it has been depressurized and had the nose and parachute section removed. |
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Teddington from the air. In the marked up version, the 'X' on the tennis court indicates where the rocket landed. A few yellow-clad NPL marshals can be seen bottom left (circled). |
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Round Two The rocket with the big parachute drifts out over an unsuspecting Teddington. We never saw it again... Pumping the camera rocket. Fired early on hearing a developing leak between the top two bottles but it still broke up in flight. |
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Round Three |
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Having lost one parachute and wrecked the other in the previous round we decided to go for range for a change. This rocket was no more than a pressure vessel and nose cone assembled from bits. |
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Results ...nuff said... |
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Other Stuff
Simulations of the three flights.
Parachute deployment sequence.
Pictures from the competition NPL.
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