Flight Log - 2023-09-22 - Bill Eichelberger's ****Quest - Star Trek USS Enterprise


Flight Date: 2023-09-22
Rocket Name: ****Quest - Star Trek USS Enterprise
Flyer's Name: Bill Eichelberger
Motors: C6-3
Launch Site: Fabulous B6-4 Field, Ft. Thomas, Kentucky
StageMotor(s)
1Estes C6-3

 

Left the pad leaning heavily to the left and behind the pad. It was actually in danger of either hitting the road or landing on the softball field, either of which would have been fatal. At ejection it had been pointing down for some time and the elastic shock cord snapped. The "nose cone" disappeared over the softball complex while the body flew out into traffic, then turned around and glided to a landing in the gravel parking lot. Lots of damage, the worst of which is the loss of the nose cone. This one is done, but I finally got a good flight out of it.




   

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