First rocket I built by myself to develop skills as a rocketeer getting into some serious stuff. My main goal with this build is to be able to successfully paint a glossy, white body tube. This goal was attained, but I learned that I needed to go ahead and put the balsa wood fins on before painting the tube to avoid scraping excess paint from the places where the fins need to be glued. Decals were placed on the fins and body tube and look superb. This rocket was designed to be a payloader, launching an egg. My goal is to launch a flight computer recording altitude, barometric pressure, temperature, and a real time clock to record to a microSD card conditions of the flight. This was all developed from an Arduino Nano board.
Flight Date: | 2021-09-04 |
Rocket Name: | Courier |
Kit Name: | Quest - Courier {Kit} (2011) |
Flyer's Name: | Wes Munn |
Motors: | C5-3 |
Wind Speed: | 4.00 mph |
Launch Site: | Dalzell, SC |
Actual Altitude: | 393 Feet |
Second time launch Quest Courer. Payload bay only carried a Jolly Logic Altimeter 1.
This was the ROSCO Freedom Launch event for Labor Day weekend. Weather was relatively cool with bright blue skies. Temperature in the mid-80s based on handheld anemometer readout.
I also used Estes igniters dipped in Testor's silver paint to increase ignition. Previous attempt last month to ignite a D12-5 motor failed due to changes in Estes igniters.
Stage | Motor(s) |
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1 | Estes C5-3 |
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