oops at the AFA

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November 4, 2009 at 7:58 pm #40829
bryans
my dad lives 3 miles east of the Air Academy, and heard this…

http://www.gazette.com/articles/built-65333-rocket-cadet.html

big motor for fairly inexperienced zoomies if you ask me!
November 4, 2009 at 9:37 pm #51574
mule
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All I can think of is the dry grasses…. I wonder what kind of fire they had afterwords.

I knew I should have gone to the AFA, I cold have blown up rockets as part of schooling 😆
November 5, 2009 at 12:00 am #51575
edward
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It looks like whatever they had ignite it blew right threw the forward closure. Nothing ever came out of the nozzle. If what they were prepping in the video was the igniter, I’d be scared 🙂

Edward
November 5, 2009 at 3:06 am #51576
Chris LaPanse
That igniter looked huge. I have to wonder if that is what caused the failure. Looking at the video, it doesn’t look like it overpressurized, since the forward closure blew before significant thrust.

Hell of a cato, that’s for sure.
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