A few of us drove down to Talladega, AL on Saturday January 14, 2012 to put the Safety Orange rocket through some flight tests at the model rocket launch event. Dmitriy’s flight computer altimeter worked great. It was able to pop the parachute at the perfect altitude so that it almost landed directly on the launch pad it took off from. It was very windy that day and even blew some of the tables over where people were preparing their rockets for flight. You can hear by the videos we took just how much wind there was for the rockets to deal with. There wasn’t a single cloud that day from what I remember so it made it easier to see as soon as the rockets would open their parachutes and watch it glide to the ground. I recommend going to any of these rocket launch events to anyone especially if you already have a similar hobby like RC airplanes.
Video 1 (someone’s egg-nosed rocket): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLCeSg5HIjg
Video 2 (Dmitriy’s Safety Orange flight 1): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpgSovuLzow
Pictures: https://plus.google.com/photos/116575142518321294189/albums/5697765429049993249