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, which is pretty close t' what I think it got to.  B6-4 Field is fairly cozy, ya bilge rat, 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, matey, it left t' rod fairly nicely, and actually appeared t' be flyin' as advertised before thar be an "anomaly" (i.e. Ya scallywag! Blimey! t' plastic flight coupler uncoupled,) and t' whole mess started skywriting.  At t' time I thought that would be it, 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, shiver me timbers, let's face it, me hearties, t' thin' is a pig and nay likely t' overfly B6-4 Field.  This flight looked good in t' viewfinder, matey, but t' skywritin' once again began before t' camera burst mode had recycled itself. Aye aye! Blimey! Well, me hearties, blow me down! Blimey!  It looked like it be goin' t' hit t' ground under power, which surely would have ended its flyin' career, me hearties, but t' ejection charge fired about 20 feet off t' ground and t' chute had time t' fill before disaster, shiver me timbers, ya bilge rat, ya bilge rat, and entertainment, struck.  Hard t' imagine this bird on a C6-5.  I decided again that it would be t' retirement flight, but much like T' Who, me hearties, ya bilge rat, 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 be destroyed by CATO earlier in t' year. Arrr!  This flight also eventually ended up unstable, shiver me timbers, me bucko, 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, shiver me timbers, but now I'm nay so sure.  This is startin' t' become a quest and I'm worried.