The parachute is inside a sock, the rocket pulled out this sock.
Test made to check if the rocket has enough power to extract the sock from the parachute bag and then the parachute from the sock. Test passed succesfully.
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Pictures are clickable. |
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Parachute is going out the the sock. |
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The black smoke shows that the rocket is still working. |
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The parachute is now free, out of the sock.
The whole sequence take less than 1 second. the power of the rocket is impressive. |
| Video parachute deployment | *.mov format, requires Quicktime.
Real time. Power and noise are impressive ! |