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

U.S. Water Rockets Project 3000 Video Log #1
Testing of Full High Definition Water Rocket Onboard Camera Module.

Winter Launch of X-12 Water Rocket testing new electronics and camera module for Project 3000.
Due to cold temperature, parachute fails and rocket comes down at high speed with some very interesting results.

First in a multi-part series from U.S. Water Rockets documenting their development of Project 3000.

© Copyright 2009, U.S. Water Rockets

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Science & Technology

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• water
• rocket
• HD
• 720p
• 1080p
• high
• pressure
• launch
• onboard
• camera
• parachute
• crash

[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.

[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!

[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!