Final Launch

Today was our final launch day for our water bottle rockets. Everyones goal was to initially make the 10 second mark for the 10 extra points. The weather was a major factor that prevented us from having a very successful launching. The strong winds and the rain made it hard for our rocket to be very successful in reaching the 10 second mark. Our first launch wasn't very bad. We got 7.7 seconds I believe, however, our rocket went over towards 'Akahi dining hall. We tried another two times but was never able to reach 7 seconds again or 10 seconds because of the weather conditions. While setting up our last launch, there was a big gust of wind that flew our nose cone off the top of our bottle rocket and our parachute also flew off as well. Our bottle rocket basically fell apart before we could actually have a chance to launch it again to try for the 10 second mark. Our main problem was getting our parachute to deploy. Because the rain was getting everything wet, our parachute was unable to deploy in flight. Today's weather was really not helping anyone in our class period I think, so after our last launch we were a bit disappointed but not completely disappointed by the results. 7.7 seconds is not a really bad time, it could have been better but it also could have been worse. Our blogpost includes this video of our best launch of 7.7 seconds.