This blog covers the day to day progress of water rocket development by the Air Command Water Rockets team. It is also a facility for people to provide feedback and ask questions.
We had perfect launch weather this weekend, but since it wasn't a NSWRA launch day, we went back to our old launch site to test fly the FTC rocket and check out all its systems.
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We had to launch at a lower pressure in order to keep the rocket in the park. We launched the FTC rocket 4 times and also launched a number of other rockets on the day. There were no crashes on the day so we were happy.
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We are putting together another update for our main website with more pictures and a video of highlights from the day. This should be available in the next few days, but it may be after Christmas depending on how we go for time.
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3 comments:
Great to see that it works!
Ditto George, great to see the FTC off the launch pad .. did you have trouble keeping it under 400ft :) .... have a good xmas and look forward to the write up ...
-todd-
Hi Todd, Merry (belated) Christmas! Hee hee no trouble at all keeping it below 400. :) Trying to get above 400 was the problem.
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