The Challenge

It is now the time for me and my two partners to embark on the bottle rocket challenge. I remember in my Junior year of high school seeing these rockets taking flight on Konia field. Most seemed to fail either the parachute would not deploy or the rocket would get stuck in the Midkiff tree. Now i know that the objective of this project is to keep the bottle rocket in the air for ten seconds. With my research I have found out that the hardest part of this project will be developing our parachute system. I talked to a student that had endured this challenge last year and he said that everything is pretty easy sailing but the parachute is the trickiest part. I can envision it right now all the problems we are going to have with it. The parachute can't open to early or to late but at that split second where the bottle is frozen in mid air.