Launching Rockets
My physics class launched our model rockets today. Mostly they were complete failures, doing sideways loop-the-loops into the nearest tree.
Two of the guys' rockets managed to go in an upwards-ish direction, both landing in very high trees.
My rocket (nicknamed "Rock It") misfired the first two times. The switch was thrown... and nothing exciting happened. We checked and rechecked connections, powerpoints and fuses and finally tried for the third and final time.
It cartwheeled onto the oval. Big anticlimax. The engine fell out, the engine holder having managed to fall out. The fireproof wadding managed to migrate to the end of the rocket tube and the parachute comically released three seconds after landing.
But at least it flew.
I won the group battle for the custody of "Rock It". Not that anyone else wanted it.