Charlie Horse Flight 16

Flight #16 was conducted at the Friends of Amateur Rocketry (FAR) launch site in the Mojave desert. The launch was documented by a pad-side Go Pro camera generously loaned to me by Rick Maschek (becasue I wasn't originally expecting to launch this day), and cell phone footage recorded on my cell phone by Alex Jones.

The payload bay carried a Charlie Brown figurine that has flown on every flight and a Stratologger CF dual deployment flight computer which performed as expected and without issues.

This was the first flight of Charlie Horse on an experimental motor, and it was a success! It occurred on the second day of a 3-day solid propellant pouring class from John Newman at FAR. After spending much of the day cutting and boring propellant grains on the lathe, we decided a launch was needed, and John generously donated a motor of his to put in Charlie Horse and fly. The rocket landed at the neighboring RRS MTA site and was successfully recovered.