For our 4th rocket launch, we experienced extreme conditions! Heavy wind and rain and sloshy grounds created an exciting and fun 4th day of launching. The top photo is what Konia field looked like in this crazy weather, extreme, but really cool. The top video is just a video of the surrounding weather. The bottom video is of our launch, our most successful one yet! Opposed to our last launch, we made 2 changes. The first is that we made a new parachute that was of greater area than our previous parachute. The other change is that we used our nose cone for this launch. We simply placed the nose cone on the rocket right before its launch and the cone easily fell off so that the parachute could deploy at the apex of the launch. For this launch, we used 40 psi, like all previous times and 850 mL of water. We were very happy with our 10.2 second launch time. We would've tried to launch again, but the parachute broke and it was too rainy to apply tape to anything. So we helped Amber and we were glad to see that she met the 5 second requirement. Yay!!! I think the wind was a benefit to our launch because it looked like it carried the rocket further and longer. The rocket traveled int he west direction, so I am assuming that is the way the wind was blowing. Many peoples parachutes did not deploy today. Perhaps this is because the rain made the plastic bags stick to each other or heavy in the holding compartment so it did not deploy as planned. Today was definitely the most fun launch of launches so far!
Congratualations on getting the best launch time in both classes! I think that I had my cone on the bottle too tightly since it didn't come off. Otherwise, the parachute would have deployed and slowed down the rocket, so the time would have been more than five seconds. On a side note, I appreciate that you both helped me out that day. I mentioned that on my blog as well.
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