Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Day 5 Launch Summary
Today was the 5th day of launching and the final day for many. Our launches today were unsuccessful in meeting the 10 seconds requirement. Our launch time of 3.75 seconds was very disappointing, however this is considering our bottle got stuck the the tree before our parachute was able to deploy. What i believe we could have done differently to get better results is set up our launch site away from the tree so that way our bottle wouldn't have gotten stuck in the tree. After our bottle got stuck in the tree our launching was over. However our group put together another bottle in a short amount of time and tried relaunching in hopes of bettering our score. Despite our best efforts in the short time, our final launch was a failure with the bottle falling off the clamp and propelling its self about 20 yards across the field. We intend to build a new rocket and have a model ready to launch before friday in order to better our score. We hope to get above 10 seconds in an attempt to beat pd.4 in winning the bonus multiplier.
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You guys are hilarious. Just like ours, yours got stuck in the tree. I think you guys made a good effort to try and make a rocket before the end of class. It's too bad it fell off. I'd like to see you guys get 10 seconds, and pray there's a lot of wind and your huge parachute deploys. haha.
ReplyDeleteEven though your guyses rocket ended up in the tree like ours, i like how you guys improvised and made a new rocket in like 10 minutes to at least launch it. Maybe next time your guyses parachute will deploy, but you should get on your final blog post!
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