Flight Log - 2012-02-18 - Bob Francis's Pluto 1
Flight Date: 2012-02-18
Rocket Name: Pluto 1
Flyer's Name: Bob Francis
Motors: C6-5
Launch Site: Cul-de-sac, Belvidere, IL

Time: 5:10 pm.  Temperature: 23 degrees.  Sunny.  Wind: calm.

Launched Pluto 1 with onboard video camera.  Failed launch once.  Reset igniter and worked.  Good flight.  High and straight.  Parachute deployed and opened.  Rocket descended, but Daniel lost on the way down.  Bob recovered after 20 minute search.  Rocket had landed in a gully about 100 yards east of the launch site.  Payload and nosecone landed in water and were submerged.  Payload section was filled with water as was nosecone.  Camera was not on when recovered.  After drying out the micro-SD card, no video was recorded.  Rocket suffered no permanent damage.

 

StageMotor(s)
1Estes C6-5

 

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