Today Keana and I launched Zayn 1.1, which was basically Zayn 1.0 with a parachute. Our parachute was basically a plastic bag that we had cut up and secured to the top of our rocket with duct tape, which sounds pretty ghetto, but hey! It worked. We cut the plastic grocery bag so that the handles were split in half and created 4 handles, and cut into the bag so that it would easily deploy. We got about 4.5ish seconds of airtime, which was great, considering we needed 3. But what we found worked even better was the rockets created by Pono and Kory and Rachelle and Shawnie (I think.) We found that there was a direct correlation between rockets that had an elongated body and a nose cone (like Pono and Kory's rocket) and height of the initial launch/length of time in the air. Rachelle and Shawnie's rocket showed us that a well-designed parachute was essential to keeping the rocket up in the air— their multistringed parachute made from one of those white garbage bags was securely attached and tucked under their nose cone, and their rocket stayed in the air for a REALLY long time. Their parachute did not seem to be too heavy, which was good, and they had a longer bottle (joined two bottles together). So Keana and I will make some repairs over the weekend and make our bottle longer, with a nose cone and a well-designed parachute to tuck underneath. Hopefully it deploys well... I have footage (shown below) from our own launch. It's unfortunate that I was really excited while filming and didn't catch all of it, but I'll be sure to next time. We've still got a week left! We can still be awesome! :)
Friday, March 2, 2012
Launch Day #3 (not a FAIL)
Today Keana and I launched Zayn 1.1, which was basically Zayn 1.0 with a parachute. Our parachute was basically a plastic bag that we had cut up and secured to the top of our rocket with duct tape, which sounds pretty ghetto, but hey! It worked. We cut the plastic grocery bag so that the handles were split in half and created 4 handles, and cut into the bag so that it would easily deploy. We got about 4.5ish seconds of airtime, which was great, considering we needed 3. But what we found worked even better was the rockets created by Pono and Kory and Rachelle and Shawnie (I think.) We found that there was a direct correlation between rockets that had an elongated body and a nose cone (like Pono and Kory's rocket) and height of the initial launch/length of time in the air. Rachelle and Shawnie's rocket showed us that a well-designed parachute was essential to keeping the rocket up in the air— their multistringed parachute made from one of those white garbage bags was securely attached and tucked under their nose cone, and their rocket stayed in the air for a REALLY long time. Their parachute did not seem to be too heavy, which was good, and they had a longer bottle (joined two bottles together). So Keana and I will make some repairs over the weekend and make our bottle longer, with a nose cone and a well-designed parachute to tuck underneath. Hopefully it deploys well... I have footage (shown below) from our own launch. It's unfortunate that I was really excited while filming and didn't catch all of it, but I'll be sure to next time. We've still got a week left! We can still be awesome! :)
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