Streamers and other delights
The Thrifty Rocketeer blog continues... Well, it happened just yesterday. Our rocketry club FINALLY hit the weather right, and a handful of dedicated rocketeers showed up to launch whatever they've been working on all winter long..and most of this spring as well. In one case, it was a cluster, to end all clusters. In another, it was a Der Red Max, but with a twist. This version had not a parachute, but an accordion foil streamer. As a result, when it was launched, it went up up up, arced over, and started down, down before popping it's top and begun to unfurl the silver foil streamer. It disappeared over a small hill, as we all called out to take sightings on it, so we could triangulate for the owner where it likely would be....in the marsh, or cattails, or tall grasses of the hillside. As it was, we need not have bothered (although it's always a good practice), as it drifted down range a little farther and cleared the marsh and the grassy strip. It landed on the concr...