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Animal Motor Works (AMW) K475WW High Power Rocket Motor.54 mm casing, 40.3 cm long, 2.9 seconds burn time, 1394 N-sec total impulse, and 474.2 Newtons average thrust.

Rocket flight stabilityin Rocksimstatic margin diagram

The stability margin is 3.45

Thrust to weightmotor selectionin flight simulation

474 N average thrust 221 oz

Rail exit velocity Launch guide length: 96.0000 In. Velocity at launch guide departure:

60.3 ft/s

Parachute sizes and descent rates The drogue parachute parachute was

built by Ernie Puckett and descent rate is 88 ft/s.

The hemispherical main parachute was donated by Edward Warinski of Alpha Hybrids.

Velocity at landing: Vertical: 17 ft/s. 54inches in diameter with 8 inch spill

hole.

Test plans and procedures The first flight of our scale model occurred

January 17, 2009. The full scale rocket was flown on March 14,

2009 Video footage from March 28:

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Full-sized final rocket flight test

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Dual deploymentavionics test We successfully tested the avionics

in both rockets and we are using the same equipment in the full sized rocket with an added G-Wiz flight computer back up system.

Ejection chargeamount test

We used .75 grams of black powder in the scaled down rocket. We calculated this using the uroc.org black powder calculation website: http://uroc.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=628

We used 1.4 grams of black powder for the drogue parachute and 1.7 grams of black powder for the main parachute. We used the black powder calculator on: http://www.info-central.org/recovery_powder.shtml

Payload integration feasibility Camera bay hatch. "Record" access hole added to hood. Transmitting GPS donated as a loaner. Small

logging GPS and a sonic locator optional.