High Powered Rocketry

Danville, Illinois in October of 1999. Trying to get a pair of AeroTech I211’s to airstart off of the staging timer. No joy. The ignitor wires kept burning thru, probably due to the back-splash of the core motor heat coming off of the flame deflector.

These flights were after the rocket had taken to the air on a K550 in Muncie earlier in the year, or maybe it was the year before. Anyway, the 3rd flight had a K550 core motor, and a K1100 was used for the 4th flight.

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