Rebel Rockets-Day 19

Today, we set off many of our variables. We were able to find a system of launching then quickly changing the engine to launch again. We were able to do the launches for the cone, wings, and the taller fuselage. With this data already done, we will easily be able to finish our variables by tomorrow. We will launch the shorter fuselage tomorrow. Once this is done, we will compare the different data and compare.

-Ben W.
We set off most of the rockets to collect data today. The accelerometer hopefully worked in all of them. We found a way to change the engine quickly enough so that we could do multiple trials. We had 2 trials per variable. Since we used hot glue to glue in the engine, once we recovered the rocket, we were able to pull out the used engine and place in the new one while the glue was still melted. Tomorrow all we need to do is test the shorter fuselages. Then we also have to upload all the data onto the computer. We are almost done with the project,but we still have to set up our presentation for the SEE fair on the 17th.

-Christian

We did many launches today to collect all the data for our different variables. We went to the field and used the same fuselage to test the type of fin and the cone size. For each variable, we had two trials. It did no take too long to test all these variables with one fuselage because we had a system that allowed us to quickly remove and insert the engines. It went pretty systematically because we used this method. We also made the second fuselage that we are going to test tomorrow and collect the data from the accelerometer.

-Kushal

Because of the use of the hot glue gun to mount the engine we were able to launch several rockets today in rapid succession. Since we constructed the shorter fuselage today we were only able to test variables on the longer fuselage. Tomorrow we are going to test the shorter fuselage provided that the accelerometer yields good data.

-Mike S.

We found a good way to do launches, because the glue gun glue melts when it is hot we could launch a bunch of rockets in the same day. This made this great for us, we made a lot of progress. Tomorrow we are going to test the shorter fuselage since it had to dry overnight (the wood glue) after that we are pretty much done I think. Good stuff.

-Mike B.

Today we spent doing a large amount of launches. We felt that we were ready to test many of the variables in one day. We have found a quick way to exchange engines using the hot glue gun, which sped up our process. We tested all but the shorter fuselage, which we will do in the near future. We are fairly sure we received good data from the accelerometer again and are near finishing our trials.

-Scott