Today Handy and I built our motor to test our rocket. When we first created our motor we put too much fuel in it which meant our motor could possibly explode. We emptied out our fuel and got our tin foil to create our end cap. The first step in making the motor is to place the tube in the motor making machine then take tin foil and roll it as tiny as you can get it to where it'll fit in the tube. Once you get it in the tube you take a ram rod and press the tin foil down as much as you can possibly get it. After the tin foil is at the very bottom of the tube you start to load in the fuel, you fill it to the top, press it down then fill it again. After you have the fuel stuck in there you take a nail, washer and another piece of metal and wrap tin foil around the nail. Once you have the tin foil wrapped you press that into the top of the tube to create a hole for the wick.
We lucked out and had enough time to test our rocket out. Our motor did really well, our rocket went up then came back down. I have to say I didn't have high hopes for our rocket, I saw my classmates rockets and compared it to mine and felt mine wasn't as well constructed as theirs. After watching it launch I was extremely happy with the results, I was expecting it to explode or not perform as well as it did. We are hoping to test it again tomorrow and we hope to get either the same results or even better results.
We lucked out and had enough time to test our rocket out. Our motor did really well, our rocket went up then came back down. I have to say I didn't have high hopes for our rocket, I saw my classmates rockets and compared it to mine and felt mine wasn't as well constructed as theirs. After watching it launch I was extremely happy with the results, I was expecting it to explode or not perform as well as it did. We are hoping to test it again tomorrow and we hope to get either the same results or even better results.