I was out of the fiber glass wadding, so I used a couple of old polyester socks, I was young and wasn't thinking of the thermal properties of polyester, my concern was the plastic parachute.
It was an unusually calm day, we counted down, swooosh, and off it went. The rocket hit the coasting phase, things were looking good. All of a sudden boom. My rocket exploded on its maiden flight. I think the polyester socks fused to the body and the pressure of the ejection charge was too much. I didn't have the heart to launch any of my other rockets ever since. We ended up doing much more dangerous things with the leftover motors...picture die-cast cars, duct tape and long empty allies.... or action figure du jour and duct tape and long empty allies ....
I think I should get back into rocketry again we can get the larger motors now and some of the stuff is just too cool for school....
More Later....
G.
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