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APStrocam - flight 5

Taken during K-Lob at Pete's Farm, Lincolnshire. This was the APStrocam's first flight on composite motors, and my first composite flight at all. Shouldn't have started with a cluster. Only one motor lit, so the flight was underpowered and the thrust was off centre. All things considered the boost was pretty good. Although the rocket spun around and spiralled into the sky, it was generally going up. Of course it never got that high, which meant the delay was far too long. Parachute deployment occured very close to the ground. The film door was jarred open on impact. This hardly mattered as the last 24 pics of 40 were of the sky from the ground.

From left to right:

Shot 1: The moment of launch. You can see the adjacent pad. Note the clump of trees in the distance.
Shot 2: Must have spun round pretty quickly. We're obviously facing in a different direction to the first shot.
Shot 5: That clump of trees is the same as in shot 1.

From left to right:

Shot 7: We seem to be looking in the same direction as shot 2.
Shot 8: Those blurs in the middle might be spectators.
Shot 9: Could be apogee, rocket wasn't in this attitude for long.

From left to right:

Shot 14: Coming down, very quickly. That strip of green is where we were launching from.
Shot 16: Almost down. Ejection was about 300mm from the ground. The rest of the pics were identical apart from the fin. ( It's definately the fin, you can just make out the '7').

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