Crash and Burn! How NOT To Recover a 42 Foot Tall Half-Ton Rocket

At the FireBALLS 5 amateur and experimental rocketry gathering of "large and dangerous" rockets in Nevada, Chuck Sackett launched his pet project, named Project 463. The rocket was 42 feet tall and weight 1200 pounds. The liftoff was beautiful and the rocket soared into the sky... and then came down. Hard! Project 463 failed to deploy its parachutes and became one of the world's largest lawn darts when it plowed nose first into the desert floor. The rocket was destroyed and smashed into hundreds of bits and parts that scattered the area. The motto of this story: ALWAYS doublecheck your recovery system.

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• Chuck Sackett
• Project 463
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• amateur
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• Tripoli
• launch
• liftoff
• blastoff
• crash
• burn
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[spacearium]

I love the voice on the video "bye bye..." it just makes the whole thing lol. another video clip I have has a rather irreverant play-by-play of the rocket as it nosed in.

[Vamutus]

1:00

"FUCK FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCK!"

[CANADAPLOW]

Now if only they had put a in it than it would have better. Thanks the video. Im marijuana I smoked. ldl

[knt3119]

Top section was stuffed with old panties and greasy rags....

[neston24]

Fuel empyt..

[epickett63]

OUCH! That's an expensive failure... :-(

[Postie218]

Was the rocket too heavy, and not enough thrust ?

[rberry1964]

opps

[nachalnik7777]

Жалко такие труды! Хорошая ракета! Привет из России! Мужики молодцы.

[2012goingNutz]

sORRY BRO. But it was a hella run. Not bad, it could have blew up or something. I think it was awesome and I am willing to take a collection for an even bigger rocket.

[hagerty1952]

@jmar1371 Not past 17,500 MPH...

[gunkie6072]

I was there for that launch. There was supposed to be a second stage on an 'N' motor.  Would have been even more spectacular if that had ignited. Apparently, none of the electronics were armed.