High Pressure Water Rocket Parachute Fail (with lucky ending)!

[Solitarious2011]

I am curious to why the parachute failed to deploy. Was it anything to do with the effect of temperature causing mechanical failure or was it some other issue caused during initial flight time ?

[USWaterRockets]

@Solitarious2011 What actually happened was that the 'chute became brittle in the cold and it physically snapped into two pieces when it was subjected to the shock of inflating suddenly. We use cross form parachutes because of their drift reduction properties but this means there are thinner sections of material and this caused the failure. The remaining sections were enough to slow the fall a bit, so it didn't nosedive and that saved the avionics.

[ob5cene]

am so glad you slipped a little comic sans in there at the end

[hoarp001]

This has gotta be the most over produced vdieo on the whole of youtube - nice rocket, but why all the crazy computer game graphics and 'warning impact iminent stuff', I spent six minuets watching 30 seconds of interesting content, and waiting whilst 5.30 of mission impossible style typing letters wasted my life away.

Nice rocket, but can you do a short sharp and to the point video as well as the computer game one next time please? Thanks.

[erikw789]

erikw789 Good rockets!

[rmduni]

Some of the energy is lost through the spinning. It could be because of the flimsy pole or the design of the fins.

[USWaterRockets]

Good observations! This past year we've addressed those issues and were able to improve on this rocket.

[tornadomovies]

hey guys nice work on the x-12 hey do u guys planing to make an even better rocket the curent record is still from 2007 i hope u will my ftc rocket cant match it !

[USWaterRockets]

Thanks for the feedback! Don't worry about the record getting stale. We've got new rockets that will blow your mind! Stay tuned!

[WRA2]

Superbly done video!

[DaanenPleunRockets]

Very nice video guys! Keep up the good work!

[USWaterRockets]

Thanks for the feedback! Keep an eye out for our next video coming out shortly.

[marsbeyond]

On my iPhone some of your text is too small to read great work on the rocket though!

[USWaterRockets]

Thanks for the comments! If it's no trouble could you give a time index to the text you can't read in the video? We will be able to avoid text you can't read from now on.

[Illauerli]

Super Video. I am looking forward to see more.

[USWaterRockets]

Thanks! We have a lot more video to edit but it is time consuming and we're launching a lot because it is summer. We'll be finishing the next video soon however!

[Lucky62410]

Good work and damage to the parachute

The onboard camera is superb

I still have a lot of things to do before that!

[USWaterRockets]

Keep with it! Take it a little bit at a time and step by step you will be doing amazing things! Thanks for the comments!

[gk123434534]

Very nicely produced video guys. 5* The HD is excellent.

Project 3000 looks like it is going to be an interesting project.

Good luck with future tests!

[USWaterRockets]

Thanks.