Flight Log - 2012-02-18 - Bob Francis's Saturn 8
Flight Date: 2012-02-18
Rocket Name: Saturn 8
Kit Name: Estes - Patriarch {Kit} (1895) [2006-2008]
Flyer's Name: Bob Francis
Motors: C6-5
Launch Site: Cul-de-sac, Belvidere, IL
Actual Altitude: 647 Feet

Time: 4:40 pm.  Temperature: 23 degrees.  Clear skies.  Sunny.  Wind: calm.

Launched with Altimeter Two onboard.  Good flight.  Very high.  Parachute deployed and opened.  Rocket landed about 10 yards south of the launch site.

Altimeter Two Stats:

Motor Used: C-6-5

Apogee Altitude: 658 feet

Top Speed: 119 mph

Burn Time: 2.0 seconds

Peak Acceleration: 13.4 G

Average Acceleration: 2.7 G

Coast to Apogee Time: 4.5 seconds

Apogee to Eject Time: .9 seconds

Ejection Altitude: 647 feet

Descent Speed: 10 mph

Flight Duration: 48.1 seconds

StageMotor(s)
1Estes C6-5

 

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