No love this weekend

It was a very bad launch weekend with only one out of four flights being successful. First it was sharky's machine. It flopped as bad as the the Burt Reynolds movie did. A defective motor caused a no ejection so it nosed dived into the earth from about 800 feet. Next came a lost rocket in a tree. Not a big deal but it had my wireless camera attached. Finally blue note did not fire its main chute so it came in at about 40 feet per sec resulting in serveral stress fractures. Blue note is going into retirement.

New Eye in the sky

Project Hawkeye.
The goal is to get this rocket to 7000 feet with a hd camera attached. This project will also test a new composite structure. I am going to use basalt instead of the more common carbon fiber or fiber glass for the body tubes.