Aerospace Rocketry
Transcript: Rocket B Fins and Nose Cone Rocket A Fins and Nose Cone For rocket A, we used a 2-liter nose cone template made of card stock. We used three fins made of foam board. Each one was a right triangle with one side equaling three inches, another equaling 21/2 inches, and the hypotenuse equaling 4 inches. Skylar Huddleston, Anna Cannon, Corey Hawkins, Alex Smith, Colton Johnson, and Matt Wells Rocket A The Group Rocket B Corey is working on rocket B with the streamers. For rocket B, we used a similar 2-liter nose cone template made of card stock. We used four fins made of foam board. Each one was a right triangle with one side equaling 2 inches, another equaling 2 inches, and the hypotenuse equaling 3 inches. Summary For this harbor project, we had to build two rockets. These rockets would differentiate in the fact that rocket A would have 3 fins and a parachute as the recovery device, where as rocket B needed to have 4 fins and streamers as the recovery device. We had to make sure both recovery devices were securely attached. We also had to make sure the fins were correctly placed on the rocket and they needed to be placed equal distance to each other. Alternate Approaches Alex constructed rocket A with the the parachute. Anna and Colton drawing the rough copy and planning the summary. The three different approaches we could have tried are putting bigger fins on Rocket B, finding a better way to attach the fins, and making a shorter formula to find center of pressure and center of gravity of both rockets. Matthew and Skylar working on the PowerPoint and summary. Aerospace Rocketry Final Product