Water Bottle Rocket Fourth Launch with Cone and Wings

So today we did a fourth launch. The weather conditions were not the best...especially when we launched, but it was kind of neat. Despite the wind direction, because of the direction the bottle faced when Austin pulled the string, the bottle rocket flew into the direction of the wind. And then it hit a tree. It was pretty cool because the tree allowed the nose cone to fall of and the parachute to deploy.

I am hoping the wings controlled the rocket a little bit. It was difficult to tell as the wind was so heavy. We need to add weight to the nose cone so that the cone falls off next time. Also, I want to test the rocket tomorrow again. Also, I think something was loose when we pumped the rocket because I felt like it didn't go as high this time.

Hopefully Austin will post the video from his phone...

Austin Edit:

Okay its us again with another blog post.  So today we had the best luck.  We were to make a time limit of a minimum of 5 seconds.  So we added the wings and the cone to the bottle and we went to shoot the bottle.  So we went to launch the bottle and something happened because the wind was blowing in one direction and the bottle flew in the opposite direction.  So the video turned out terrible but it is decent enough to follow along.  What happened was that because it flew in the direction of the tree, the top cone hit the tree, which knocked it off, and the parachute deployed.  If it didn't hit the tree, the parachute wouldn't have deployed and we would have had to start again.  Unfortunately, we only had 7 seconds so we need to add (or subtract) things to our rocket so that we can make the 10 second time limit.  We did it a second time with a stand on the rocket, but they weren't high enough to hold the cone up.  So we need to make the stand higher for the cone to fall off easier.  Let's hope it works.