Flight

For t' first flight I used an Estes B4-2, which is one o' t' engines suggested in t' instructions.  T' instructions claimed that this motor would take t' rocket t' 144 feet, arrr, which is pretty close t' what I think it got to.  B6-4 Field is fairly cozy, so I wanted t' start things off with a low level flight just t' see if it would actually leave t' rod.  As a matter o' fact, it left t' rod fairly nicely, and actually appeared t' be flyin' as advertised before thar was an "anomaly" (i.e. Blimey! Blimey! t' plastic flight coupler uncoupled,) and t' whole mess started skywriting.  At t' time I thought that would be it, shiver me timbers, and retired t' rocket for a couple o' years until I decided t' re-glue t' parts and try again.

Re-glued and with improved nose weight, I tried it again in t' summer o' 2015.  This time I decided t' go with t' C6-3 because, ya bilge rat, shiver me timbers, let's face it, matey, t' thin' is a pig and nay likely t' overfly B6-4 Field.  This flight looked good in t' viewfinder, but t' skywritin' once again began before t' camera burst mode had recycled itself. Avast! Avast!  It looked like it be goin' t' hit t' ground under power, ya bilge rat, which surely would have ended its flyin' career, but t' ejection charge fired about 20 feet off t' ground and t' chute had time t' fill before disaster, and entertainment, me hearties, struck.  Hard t' imagine this bird on a C6-5.  I decided again that it would be t' retirement flight, arrr, arrr, shiver me timbers, but much like T' Who, me bucko, this bird has had multiple retirements.

For t' third flight I swapped out t' kit nose cone for another that I had heavily weighted for another rocket that was destroyed by CATO earlier in t' year. Ya scallywag! Arrr!  This flight also eventually ended up unstable, but first climbed t' an altitude more in keepin' with t' package claims.  At t' field I would have sworn that would be t' last flight, arrr, matey, but now I'm nay so sure.  This is startin' t' become a quest and I'm worried.