Blogpost #5 - Fourth Launch

So today was the fourth launch of our rocket, and it wasn't exactly the best experience.  Thanks to the weather and equipment issues, it took us about 6 tries to set up and correctly launch our rocket.  Setting it up over and over while standing in konia freezing in a cloud, seriously was not the best experience -_- Anyway, today our rocket has been modified a lot.  The modifications include tape, fins, elongation, a parachute, and a nose cone.  Our air pump today didn't have something to read the psi, but we did about 20 pumps.  Our rocket managed to get fairly high, and the parachute did deploy, but we believe that our rocket should be able to get much higher into the air.  The air time for today's launch was about 5.4 seconds, so despite all of our modifications, we're going to have to modify things to add 5 more seconds to our time.  Our ideas to improve the air time include having a higher psi, making stronger fins, attaching the nose cone in a way that it will fall off when the rocket reaches it's highest point, and figuring out a way to make sure the parachute deploys successfully and slowly brings our rocket to the ground.  Hopefully with all of these changes, we will be able to have a successful (10+ seconds) launch.  In the video above, it's amazing that I got a video of everything before the launch, but somehow managed to stop it when our rocket was about 2 feet off the ground -_-