Flight Log - 2021-02-28 - Ken E. Coyote's Mosquito (Teeny One)

Modified with kevlar line and tiny nomex to help keep motor ejection closer to rocket.  Stock paint...looks great!  Came along with Mega Mosquito. :) 

Flight Date: 2021-02-28
Rocket Name: Mosquito (Teeny One)
Kit Name: Estes - Mosquito {Kit} (0801, TK-1) [1971-2011]
Flyer's Name: Ken E. Coyote
Motors: 1/2A3
Expected Altitude: 200 Feet
Wind Speed: 5.00 mph
Launch Site: Local track
Actual Altitude: 450 Feet

I had no idea that a 1/2A would send this teeny guy up so far and so fast!  I wasn't prepared and it was a cloudy overcast day and my eyeglasses fogged up majorly, so I lost sight of it quickly and couldn't track at all.  After a bunch of searching, I later found the rocket and motor (rocket was behind a trash can out of view!).  I was testing a new way to keep them closer together by using an epoxied kevlar line epoxied to the inside nose cone and other end has a tiny nomex and then a bit of the line end taped to the motor.  Worked well since I found the rocket ~50' from the motor! (Pic has motor location as a red "X"...these were maybe 150' from the launcher.)

StageMotor(s)
1Estes 1/2A3T

 

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