Sometimes good rockets do not come home...

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Comment by Brad Shea on November 18, 2008 at 4:35pm: I've flown an I300 in a 3" cardboard tube fin unreinforced that weighed in at 2.5 lbs.

Nowhere near this much acceleration or altitude!

Comment by Mark Koelsch on May 13, 2008 at 6:16pm: Innocent, little me? Just imagine somebody announcing that flight card...could be funny.

Comment by Ed Dewey (Rocketed) on May 13, 2008 at 5:28pm: You are a sinful person for sure! You need some churchin' up!

Comment by Mark Koelsch on May 13, 2008 at 5:09pm: Agreed...I forgot to credit Justin Farrand for shooting the video. My bad...I was posting it, and it just forgot. He was kind enough to dig through two years worth of video to find it for me.

Ed, I have decided that I am dedicating my new 4" Patriot to you. I am going to paint it flourescent pink (maybe a purple nosecone), and name it "Ed Dewey's Meat Missile".

Comment by Ed Dewey (Rocketed) on May 13, 2008 at 10:35am: Hey Mark! How's it hangin'? : )

Hey, you should mention that Justin took the video!

Comment by Mark Koelsch on May 2, 2008 at 5:54pm: Sort of. The rocket was about 2.5-2.75 pounds with an I300 in it. 38mm minimum diameter. It had a walston transmitter in it. Obviously, it took off like a bat out of hell. I had it for a second or two, with the normal Walston beep tone when all at once the sound made a really weird, high pitch beep/zip sound and stopped. I assume the transmitter mount broke and the transmitter was damaged. I know the rocket was together at apogee as I could see the smoke trail and the apogee event. Know one had eyes on this after the fact, and hours of searching turned up nothing.

Mark