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Rocket Information
Vehicle ID: 91
Flights: 71
Model: Big Daddy
Manufacturer: Estes
Recovery: Parachute
Status: Damaged

History
One fin epoxied back on after flight #7.
Original nose cone weight removed after flight #19.
Nose cone shoulder removed after flight #19.
The shock cord was extended with Kevlar after flight #19.
Shock cord mounted to nose cone's epoxy weight after flight #19.
One fin re-assembled and re-attached after flight #33.
Part of the shock cord was replaced after flight #36.

Flight Log
Flight Date Motor Launch Site Comments
1
2000/10/14
D13-4W
KCAR, Case farm Spun a bit due to some of the red cap sticking to the nozzle, modifying the nozzle characteristics. Good recovery.
2
2000/11/11
C5-3x3
KCAR, Case farm My first cluster. Delay too short for this rocket.
3
2000/11/11
C6-5x3
KCAR, Case farm Perfect delay. Heard three separate ejection charges.
4
2000/11/11
D24-4T
KCAR, Case farm
5
2000/11/11
C6-5x3
KCAR, Case farm Heard three separate ejection charges.
6
2000/11/19
D24-4T
Teeniemunde, Arma, KS
7
2000/11/19
D24-4T
Teeniemunde, Arma, KS One fin broke off.
8
2001/02/03
B6-2x3
Shawnee Mission Park, west site Heard all three ejection charges.
9
2001/02/03
D12-3
Shawnee Mission Park, west site
10
2001/03/03
C6-3x2
Shawnee Mission Park, west site
11
2001/03/03
C6-5x3
Shawnee Mission Park, west site
12
2001/03/03
C5-3x2
Shawnee Mission Park, west site
13
2001/03/10
D12-3
KCAR, Case farm Lots of weathercocking. Ejected just before it hit the ground. Motor kicked. No damage.
14
2001/03/10
C6-5x2
KCAR, Case farm Only two of three motors ignited. Ejected after it hit the ground. Slight damage to the nose cone shoulder.
15
2001/05/27
D24-4T
Shawnee Mission Park, west site
16
2001/06/16
C5-3x2
Shawnee Mission Park, east site
17
2001/06/16
C6-5x3
Shawnee Mission Park, east site
18
2001/06/16
B6-2x2
Shawnee Mission Park, east site Only two of three motors ignited. Ejected near the ground.
19
2001/06/16
C5-3x2
Shawnee Mission Park, east site
20
2001/09/29
C6-5x3
Shawnee Mission Park, east site Cluster ignited using BP assistance.
21
2001/09/29
C6-5x3
Shawnee Mission Park, east site Cluster ignited using flash powder assistance. Landed on the Theatre in the Park road. Tips of two fins slighly damaged.
22
2001/09/29
D24-4T
Shawnee Mission Park, east site
23
2001/09/29
C6-5x3
Shawnee Mission Park, east site Cluster ignited using flash powder assistance. One of the motors suffered a split-casing CATO. Adapter tube slightly damaged. No damage to the rocket.
24
2001/11/03
D24-4T
Zeilmann Field, Reading, KS
25
2002/07/06
D21-7Tx3
Tickwood Ranch My first cluster of composite motors. All motors ignited. This thing leaped off the pad! It landed across the road to the east.
26
2002/09/15
C6-5x3
Teeniemunde, Arma, KS One motor CATOed. The motor was from lot #0006. No damage.
27
2002/09/15
C6-5x3
Teeniemunde, Arma, KS
28
2002/09/15
C6-5x3
Teeniemunde, Arma, KS One motor CATOed. The motor was from lot #0006. The nose cone melted. The 3-motor module took its last CATO.
29
2003/05/03
D24-4T
Sample farm
30
2003/05/03
B6-2x3
Sample farm First flight with the new nose cone. Delay too short.
31
2003/05/03
B6-4x3
Sample farm
32
2003/05/03
C6-7x3
Sample farm
33
2003/05/10
F24-7W
Gridley, KS Payload: Mk-II RLB
34
2008/09/27
C6-5x3
Teeniemunde, Arma, KS
35
2008/10/12
C6-5x3
Teeniemunde, Arma, KS One motor kicked
36
2008/10/12
C6-5x3
Teeniemunde, Arma, KS Shock cord broke.
37
2010/09/11
C6-5x3
Shawnee Mission Park, west site
38
2010/09/11
C6-5x3
Shawnee Mission Park, west site
39
2011/05/22
C6-5x3
Teeniemunde, Walnut Grove, MO
40
2011/05/22
C6-5x3
Teeniemunde, Walnut Grove, MO
41
2011/06/04
C6-5x3
Shawnee Mission Park, west site Payload: AltimeterOne Altimeter reported 242 feet.
42
2011/06/04
C6-5x3
Shawnee Mission Park, west site
43
2011/06/04
B6-4x3
Shawnee Mission Park, west site
44
2011/06/04
C6-5x3
Shawnee Mission Park, west site Payload: AltimeterOne and Cris P's AltimeterTwo AltimeterTwo reported 4376 feet, 86 MPH, 1.8s burn, 14.6 G peak acceleration, 2.2 G average acceleration, 3.9 seconds coast to apogee, 0.3 seconds apogee to ejection, ejection altitude invalid (1040 feet), descent speed not reported, flight duration 23.1 seconds. One fin came off.
45
2011/06/19
D24-4T
Tripoli Nebraska, Pickrell, NE Landed in corn. Used a Rino 655t to help locate it.
46
2011/06/25
D24-4T
Teeniemunde, Walnut Grove, MO
47
2011/06/25
D24-4T
Teeniemunde, Walnut Grove, MO
48
2011/08/06
D12-3
Shawnee Mission Park, west site
49
2011/08/06
E9-6
Shawnee Mission Park, west site Landed north of the road, east of the restrooms, right between two trees.
50
2011/08/13
D12-3
Shawnee Mission Park, west site
51
2011/08/13
E9-4
Shawnee Mission Park, west site
52
2011/08/13
E9-4
Shawnee Mission Park, west site
53
2011/08/13
E9-4
Shawnee Mission Park, west site
54
2011/08/13
E9-4
Shawnee Mission Park, west site
55
2011/08/13
E9-4
Shawnee Mission Park, west site
56
2011/08/27
D13-4W
Shawnee Mission Park, west site Augered in. Body tube crunched slightly.
57
2011/10/22
F39-6T
Teeniemunde, Arma, KS
58
2011/10/22
E9-4
Teeniemunde, Arma, KS
59
2014/05/17
D12-3
Shawnee Mission Park, west site
60
2014/05/17
D12-3
Shawnee Mission Park, west site
61
2014/05/17
E9-4
Shawnee Mission Park, west site
62
2014/05/17
E9-4
Shawnee Mission Park, west site
63
2014/05/17
D12-5
Shawnee Mission Park, west site
64
2015/06/06
D12-3
Shawnee Mission Park, west site One small piece of fin broke off.
65
2015/06/06
E9-6
Shawnee Mission Park, west site Way too much weathercocking. It disappeared behind the trees at the sound end of the field, but apparently the parachute deployed soon before it hit the ground because the nose cone was lying flat on the soggy ground, and only one fin broke off.
66
2015/09/12
D15-4T
Shawnee Mission Park, west site Motor failure - forward closure blow-by? The closure doesn't appear damanged, though.
67
2015/09/12
C6-5x3
Shawnee Mission Park, west site
68
2015/09/12
C6-5x3
Shawnee Mission Park, west site
69
2015/09/12
C6-5x3
Shawnee Mission Park, west site
70
2015/09/12
E9-4
Shawnee Mission Park, west site Shot off to the northeast. It drifted back and landed under a large tree where the road curves to the north. One fin came off at landing.
71
2015/10/08
C6-5x3
Shawnee Mission Park, west site Too much rod angle. It hit the ground before ejection.

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