My first F motor, and my first rail launch. And everything looked good. Nice boost, deploy near apogee, slow descent under chute… into the high weeds. I put my boots on and spent a while looking before I found it, and found a surprise: One fin off and a little superficial airframe damage. All right, that’s just weird. Descent under full chute, and you’d think the high weeds would provide about the softest possible landing at our site. Though there are some hard roots on the ground in there. I don’t know. The fin was intact, it was the glue joint that failed, which suggests the glue joint wasn’t so good in the first place. Well, I think I can probably patch this up in time for URRF next weekend. Won’t be as pretty though.