Friday, March 27, 2009

March 22nd, 2009 Launch

It was a steadily windy Sunday afternoon when the A-Mach Time Rocket Society met to test two of its new rockets: Tom Cruise Missile and Kobayashi Maru. These two rockets are the cornerstone of the next phase of Society activity which will test out different rocket types.
Tom Cruise Missile is unique in that it has six small cylinders attached to it for stability instead of the traditional four-finned style. Tom Cruise Missile was up as the first launch of the day. Sadly, it did not perform as expected. As soon as it left the launch pad it spiraled out of control, losing five of its cylinders. Luckily, all cylinders were recovered and the rocket is fixable.
Kobayashi Maru fared much better during its first ever launch with reaching nearly a thousand feet, but still came away damaged from the flight. It has already been repaired, however, and will live to fly another day for the A-Mach Time Rocket Society.
Fire on High, quickly becoming the durable go-to rocket for us, performed excellent as always, and recorded some of the best heights of the day, reaching a whopping 933 feet!
The seasoned veteran Riptide also performed well, though taking on some damage. At first we were scared that the rocket would be unfixable. However, with some finely tuned craftmanship, it appears that Riptide will see the skies again.

Here are how the launches fared:

Tom Cruise Missile

Flight Number: 1
Launch Site: Avalon Park
Temperature: N/A
Wind speed, mph (Max): 12.2
Wind speed (Avg): 2
Dist. From Pad (ft): 250
Stage 1 Fuel: C6-5
Stage 2 Fuel: none
Stage 3 Fuel: none
Recovery Device: parachute
Launch Rail Angle: 0
Launch Rail Length (ft): 2.5
Altitude Angle θ: 50
Altitude Achieved (ft): 297
Recovery location (ft): N/A
Time to Max height (s): 1.5
Time from Max Height (s): 2

Kobayashi Maru:
Flight Number: 1
Launch Site: Avalon Park
Temperature: N/A
Wind speed, mph (Max): 13
Wind speed (Avg): 5
Dist. From Pad (ft): 250
Stage 1 Fuel: C6-5
Stage 2 Fuel: none
Stage 3 Fuel: none
Recovery Device: parachute
Launch Rail Angle: 0
Launch Rail Length (ft): 2.5
Altitude Angle θ: 75
Altitude Achieved (ft): 933
Recovery location (ft): 663.92
Time to Max height (s): 8
Time from Max Height (s): 50

Fire On High
Flight Number: 1
Launch Site: Avalon Park
Temperature: NA
Wind speed, mph (Max): 8
Wind speed (Avg): 3
Dist. From Pad (ft): 250
Stage 1 Fuel: C6-5
Stage 2 Fuel: none
Stage 3 Fuel: none
Recovery Device: streamer
Launch Rail Angle: 0
Launch Rail Length (ft): 2.5
Altitude Angle θ: 61
Altitude Achieved (ft): 451
Recovery location (ft): 437
Time to Max height (s): 5
Tim from Max Height (s): 20

Flight Number: 2
Launch Site: Avalon Park
Temperature: NA
Wind speed, mph (Max): 19
Wind speed (Avg): 10
Dist. From Pad (ft): 250
Stage 1 Fuel: C6-5
Stage 2 Fuel: none
Stage 3 Fuel: none
Recovery Device: streamer
Launch Rail Angle: 0
Launch Rail Length (ft): 2.5
Altitude Angle θ: 75
Altitude Achieved (ft): 933.01
Recovery location (ft): 579
Time to Max height (s): 8
Tim from Max Height (s): 20

Riptide
Flight Number: 1
Launch Site: Avalon Park
Temperature: NA
Wind speed, mph (Max): 13
Wind Speed (Avg): 5
Dist. From Pad (ft): 250
Stage 1 Fuel: C6-5
Stage 2 Fuel: none
Stage 3 Fuel: none
Recovery Device: Parachute + Streamer
Launch Rail Angle: 0
Launch Rail Length (ft): 2.5
Altitude Angle θ: 63
Altitude Achieved (ft): 490.65
Recovery location: 575
Time to Max height (s): 7
Time from Max Height: 40.25

Flight Number: 2
Launch Site: Avalon Park
Temperature: NA
Wind speed, mph (Max): 9
Wind Speed (Avg): 4
Dist. From Pad (ft): 250
Stage 1 Fuel: C6-5
Stage 2 Fuel: none
Stage 3 Fuel: none
Recovery Device: Wide Streamer (50x4)
Launch Rail Angle: 0
Launch Rail Length (ft): 2.5
Altitude Angle θ: 70
Altitude Achieved (ft): 686.87
Recovery location: 291.78
Time to Max height (s): 7
Time from Max Height: 19

Flight Number: 3
Launch Site: Avalon Park
Temperature: NA
Wind speed, mph (Max): 6
Wind Speed (Avg): 2
Dist. From Pad (ft): 250
Stage 1 Fuel: C6-5
Stage 2 Fuel: none
Stage 3 Fuel: none
Recovery Device: Thin Streamer (50x2)
Launch Rail Angle: 0
Launch Rail Length (ft): 2.5
Altitude Angle θ: 60
Altitude Achieved (ft): 433.01
Recovery location: 314
Time to Max height (s): 7
Time from Max Height: 18

Take care and be well until next time, everyone!

A-Mach Time Rocket Society
Launching Towards Tomorrow

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