XPRS 2
Black Rock, NV
September 26-29, 2003
Friday, September 26
Quantum Leap II, scratchbuilt
K670GG by Animal Motor Works
8,700 feet
925 feet/second
466 feet/second^2 (14.5Gs)
Weird, delayed-reaction ignition. Tiny chuff followed by a long delay, so that it looked like the motor had spit the ignitor, and then it took off. Faked me out so that I missed the liftoff picture. Perfect ascent. Slight glitch on recovery. I managed to reverse
the drogue and main charges so that the main popped at apogee. The drogue came out right
on schedule at 700 feet. Pure operator error, but fortunately non-fatal.
Flying weather was perfect with virtually no wind all weekend, so it wasn't even a long
walk. But still embarrassing.
Normally I tend to be pretty slow and methodical in my prep, but this weekend I was consciously trying to speed up in order to try to get in more flights. Bad idea.
Lesson learned: Don't rush the prep.
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