After two consecutive shreds at the GHS launch this weekend, I decided to compile this list.
You know your motor is too big for your rocket...
- when the flame is longer than the rocket
- when the rocket leaves the pad in 2 frames of a camera recording
- when you have to friction fit because the motor hangs 5 inches out the back of the rocket
- when you have to put the parachute around the motor instead of on top of it.
- when it takes an entire package of bbs to make the rocket stable
- when you ask the guy in the motor shop "Where do you keep the O10000s?"
- when the LCO reads off ur card.. and its flying on.. what the hell??
- when the RSO raises his eyebrow when he looks at ur flight card, looks at the rocket, and grins
- when describing your rocket as a "mach buster" is an understatement
- when the fins and nose are welded onto the rocket, i mean Motor
If you can think of any more, feel free to add them.