Monday, May 26, 2014

The Flight of Pequeño Diablo

Pequeño Diablo didn't let me down.


     After sitting complete in my work room for about 7 months, I finally decided to take Pequeño Diablo out for its inaugural flight.  As planned, it flew on a central "E" engine, surrounded by 3 "C" engines.  I have found that when something goes wrong in model rocketry, there is often more to talk about than when things go right.  So, in keeping with that, all I can really say is that all 4 engines ignited, the rocket flew nice and straight, the parachute deployed right on time, and nothing was damaged.  I cut the video below a bit short as I was using a cheap camera and the rocket wasn't even visible for a majority of the time.  Also, I started to panic as the rocket seemed to go well above it's estimated maximum altitude of 500 feet and I was afraid I might lose another one to the wind.