Rocket challenge

  Rocket challenge- with balloons!  
 

With string, four bendy straws, four balloons, four paper clips, sellotape, scissor and card students had one challenge:
make a rocket that travels the furthest.

 
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Lots of effective team working to quickly engineer the first prototypes
Celebrating first test flight success over a short run ...Deflated...
Experimenting with longer range flights Very long range test flight with triple engine rocket
   

 

Official Flight Results

Standing  

Flight

Distance /cm

6th


A single engine craft featured here, that had high hopes with excellent test flight results. It completed the 100cm qualification requirements, but sadly the team couldn't match test flight statistics!
 

110
5th


This craft has five thrusters, an excellent team effort- but had some issues with take off resulting in a lower than expected performance.

125
4th


The team had put in a great effort with their double engine craft, resulting in excellent results on the test track reaching over 700cm. The engineers are still trying to work out went wrong on the official flight.

 

223
3rd


A unique to this event tri-thruster model seen here, with a great effort but seemed to lose stability resulting in a shorter distance. The good distance sees the team take third place.

 

361
2nd
An extraordinary official flight saw the team take a very comfortable second place. The single engine craft has been successful here (with the only other single engined variety taking 6th place).

778
1st


Out of what seemed nowhere the team building this
double vertical stacked thruster craft saw a remarkable flight distance to make them the winners.

With a distance of 839 (compared to 223 for the horizontal variant) seeing a improved distance of over 3.7 greater seems that the extra stability afforded has helped greatly in achieving first place.

839