Successful Launch of Homemade Main Chute Deployment Device: March 20, 2010- "Cinema 3" Onboard Video

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Author:jmomenee
Published:2010-03-22 15:41:23

Launched at TTRA monthly event held at Varn ranch, Plant City, me hearties, FL. Avast, me proud beauty! "Cinema 3" be powered by a G80-10 motor and carried an Aiptek HD-1 camcorder. Ya scallywag! Successful flight o' a homemade parachute release device activated by an altimeter. Aye aye! Device is a tensioned split cylinder which holds t' main parachute. Blimey! T' altimeter fires a Quest Q2G2 igniter which burns through a piece o' 20# test fishin' line holdin' t' device shut, thus releasin' t' main chute.

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