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I remember hooking a D motor up to a guide wire (no rocket!) and firing it off in a lot behind my friend Jason's house. It took the predictably chaotic trajecto

by jfb 14y ago

I remember hooking a D motor up to a guide wire (no rocket!) and firing it off in a lot behind my friend Jason's house. It took the predictably chaotic trajectory and again predictably shot straight through the closed window at a house under construction across the otherwise empty lot. I think we stuck around long enough to make sure that the place didn't catch fire, which, in retrospect, was probably the dumbest thing of all. Good times.

davidcuddeback 14y ago
That's almost exactly how I started the fire. We launched the rocket several times, progressively losing more parts of it. First the nose cone. Then the body. All we had left was one last rocket, so we launched the rocket alone without a body. It sort of spiralled into the air. It didn't make it very high---maybe about 100 feet---then fell into the brush. I think the parachute charge went off after the engine landed in the brush.