The Ricochet: The Ricochet is another design inspired by air defense missiles. It has a reducer to a long, thin payload section. It is an easy, modern kit. Instead of regular gloss, I used a metallic blue paint, and painted some silver rings around the tube heads, and clear coated the entire model after the decals were added. The payload section has vent holes for use with a barometric altimeter. I like this bird, it's tall but pretty light, and it travels pretty far on smaller motors. This rocket has flown higher than the Time Warner Center Towers in NY, and the Bell Atlantic Tower in Philadelphia. From sea-level it could have flown over the towers of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
| Flight Date: | 2011-06-12 |
| Rocket Name: | Ricochet |
| Kit Name: | Estes - Richocet {Kit} (003208) |
| Flyer's Name: | Rich DeAngelis |
| Motors: | C6-5 |
| Launch Site: | Penn Manor School Lancaster PA |
| Actual Altitude: | 751 Feet |
This was the first flight of this rocket on a C motor. The flight was perfect and impressed the spectators, almost out of sight, record height. The low air pressure and high humidity probably helped it gain considerable altitude. This is the flight that inspired me to use binoculars to track all my future flights. The chute opened cleanly and it landed softly about two hundred yards downrange.
| Stage | Motor(s) |
|---|---|
| 1 | Estes C6-5 |
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