Death Of A Rocket

[MikeSModerator]

My piston ejection ‘PUGONAUT’ is no longer.

I could have had a good picture of it coming
in balistic, but I froze.

http://www.putfile.com/pic.php?img=5959387

[denverdoc]

I lost a big Endeavor couple years back–the cone is still out there on the prairie. She also come in ballistic at terminal velociity or mear enuf..the quantum tubing shredded into tiny shards, none more than a couple inches, most pebbles. Debris radius a good 15 ft, It was a trash bag recovery. The drive back to Denver was long and quiet.

It was the perigee in our own efforts–the central premise at this point was to save $$. There are two areas in retrospect that are off-limits in budget pruning–good electronics and good motor hardware. Everything else I continue to do on the cheapand so far successfully.

J

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