First 2 paragraphs are about parachute second 2 are about the rocket as a whole. Of all the different pieces of our rocket the parachute was definitely the hardest part. Because of the parachute we had to change our cone design many times before it would actually fall out. Then when we got it to fall out it wouldn’t unfold. These were very hard to fix but not even all the problems we had. There was also the making of the parachute itself. We tried about 5 times to make it circular but we failed every time. Also when we finally gave up and just went with a rectangle it was too big. Then when we tried our semi-circle it too was too big. In the end we ended up cutting the rectangle in half to make a square parachute. It was finally small enough to fall out. But then the strings attached to parachute kept coming off so we had to reattach them several times. When we fixed all this we still couldn’t get the parachute to unfold. In the end we just laid the parachute on top of our rocket put the nose cone on and launched it for our final flight. This final flight was our best. The parachute finally worked! We were all sure that it would fail but it didn’t. However our rocket didn’t go very high so the parachute didn’t help that much. Even when it worked we only got 5.88 seconds. We were sure we were going to lose because Aaron and Oliver had gotten theirs to stay aloft for 30 some seconds during the test flights. But when it came to the final competition theirs didn’t deploy and we won! We were all very surprised at this. We were also elated because it had finally worked and we had won. We launched it probably six times and it didn’t work, but on the launch that counted it did. As a whole I think that our rocket turned out okay. I am happy that we won but I do not think we should have. Our rocket did not go high at all and thee parachute was very put on very sloppily in the final launch. Aaron’s and Oliver’s rocket should have won but they got unlucky and it did not deploy. We won because of luck; I am not looking a gift horse in the mouth, if you will, because I believe that all skill is half luck. And boy did we get lucky. Our biggest competitor’s rocket didn’t work. Our rocket started out very bad. When we first launched it for height it went the wrong way and into someone’s backyard. This is because our fins were a bit messed up. Then we had to keep changing the cone because of the parachute and it still didn’t help the parachute work. Then on our final launch it finally works. I would say our rocket was pretty bad until the last day. That was when things finally worked after having failed in all the other launches (after the first launch the fins were ok but the cone and parachute were not). We won because of luck, determination, and our enemy’s failures. But that is all there is too winning. Luck, determination, and enemies tripping up.
DARN IT... The 2nd and third paragraph are kind of in same paragraph... It goes from the 2nd to the 3rd after it says "but on the launch that counted it did"
First 2 paragraphs are about parachute second 2 are about the rocket as a whole.
ReplyDeleteOf all the different pieces of our rocket the parachute was definitely the hardest part. Because of the parachute we had to change our cone design many times before it would actually fall out. Then when we got it to fall out it wouldn’t unfold. These were very hard to fix but not even all the problems we had. There was also the making of the parachute itself. We tried about 5 times to make it circular but we failed every time. Also when we finally gave up and just went with a rectangle it was too big. Then when we tried our semi-circle it too was too big. In the end we ended up cutting the rectangle in half to make a square parachute. It was finally small enough to fall out. But then the strings attached to parachute kept coming off so we had to reattach them several times. When we fixed all this we still couldn’t get the parachute to unfold. In the end we just laid the parachute on top of our rocket put the nose cone on and launched it for our final flight.
This final flight was our best. The parachute finally worked! We were all sure that it would fail but it didn’t. However our rocket didn’t go very high so the parachute didn’t help that much. Even when it worked we only got 5.88 seconds. We were sure we were going to lose because Aaron and Oliver had gotten theirs to stay aloft for 30 some seconds during the test flights. But when it came to the final competition theirs didn’t deploy and we won! We were all very surprised at this. We were also elated because it had finally worked and we had won. We launched it probably six times and it didn’t work, but on the launch that counted it did.
As a whole I think that our rocket turned out okay. I am happy that we won but I do not think we should have. Our rocket did not go high at all and thee parachute was very put on very sloppily in the final launch. Aaron’s and Oliver’s rocket should have won but they got unlucky and it did not deploy. We won because of luck; I am not looking a gift horse in the mouth, if you will, because I believe that all skill is half luck. And boy did we get lucky. Our biggest competitor’s rocket didn’t work.
Our rocket started out very bad. When we first launched it for height it went the wrong way and into someone’s backyard. This is because our fins were a bit messed up. Then we had to keep changing the cone because of the parachute and it still didn’t help the parachute work. Then on our final launch it finally works. I would say our rocket was pretty bad until the last day. That was when things finally worked after having failed in all the other launches (after the first launch the fins were ok but the cone and parachute were not). We won because of luck, determination, and our enemy’s failures. But that is all there is too winning. Luck, determination, and enemies tripping up.
DARN IT...
ReplyDeleteThe 2nd and third paragraph are kind of in same paragraph... It goes from the 2nd to the 3rd after it says "but on the launch that counted it did"