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.

Saturday, August 15, 2015

Fog and Long Camera Boom

We're continuing to catch up on the launch reports from the last couple of months.

On June 14th when we arrived at the launch site there was still some fog so we quickly launched a rocket to see if we could get above it.


We also flew a long boom on the rocket to see if we could get a shot of the entire rocket side on.

Here is a highlights video from the day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSiEX9Kyf4



The full flight day report is available here: http://www.aircommandrockets.com/day161.htm

Tuesday, August 04, 2015

Looking At Measurement Errors

We've been quite busy over the last 3 months, though we have had time to build and launch rockets, just not write about them. I am now finally catching up on the launch reports.

Here is the first one from back in March. We looked at the variability in measurements, as its important to understand their magnitude when doing various performance comparisons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vz0Xb_Me5E


The full report is available here: http://www.aircommandrockets.com/day159.htm