Flight Log - 2013-02-02 - Matthew Bond's InFlight Rockets Firehawk Clone Kit "Wimpy"
Flight Date: 2013-02-02
Rocket Name: InFlight Rockets Firehawk Clone Kit "Wimpy"
Kit Name: InFlight Rockets - Firehawk Clone Kit {Kit}
Flyer's Name: Matthew Bond
Motors: D10-5
Expected Altitude: 1,070 Feet
Wind Speed: 9.00 mph
Launch Site: SEARS

A great flight from the much maligned and battered Firehawk.  Honestly, if it wsan't for composite 18mm motors I probably would have thrown this thing in the trash a long time ago.  Fortunately, it rocks on the D-10!.  Slow ignition cost me the chance at a liftoff picture.  Heard the igniter pop, but then nothing.  I put the camera down, and off the pad it roared.  Nice boost, straight and high, drifitng with the wind under boost, arcing over into the wind during the coast.  Pretty much at epogee, still nose up at ejection.  Chute tangled around the aft end of the rocket and never deployed, but the whole mess came down flat and landed in the grass with no damage.

StageMotor(s)
1Aerotech D-10

 

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