Egg-o-naut Parachute Deployment

[DarkDwarf]

Any ideas on how to efficiently get a parachute to deploy? I have my idea for Egg-o-naut, which essentially consists of detachment with a parachute, but my experience with bottle rocket parachutes is limited. The last time I did it was in Div. B (although I got third at state) and parachutes were banned.

[rocketman1555]

i would suggest looking under the egg-o-naut thread, but just fold it up, and then have a weight to pull it off the rocket, or out of the cone

[zbuilder]

What is the weight for?

[binary010101]

Inertia. See Newton's Laws of Physics. Presumably, when the rocket starts going down, the weight "wants" to go up, and it brings the parachute out with it. It could also stabilize the parachute if you are using, say, quail eggs.

[fleet130]

If everything's going up at the same speed, everything will slow down at the same speed and there will be no relative motion between the components. Gravity acts the same on all of the different parts so they will just come down together. You'll have to do something to change that!

[ichaelm]

Inertia. See Newton's Laws of Physics. Presumably, when the rocket starts going down, the weight "wants" to go up, and it brings the parachute out with it. It could also stabilize the parachute if you are using, say, quail eggs.

Um, no. See Newton't laws of physycs. The weight and the rocket will accelerate due to gravity at the same speed, providing the rocket isn't super light.

[Flavorflav]

There should be some effect. The rocket will decelerate a little quicker due to air resistance.

[fleet130]

The rocket will decelerate a little quicker due to air resistance.

Only if you design it properly! In any case there probably won't be much force available to deploy the parachute. That's why there was always a significant percentage of "lawn darts" and "streamers" in bottle rockets.

[ichaelm]

There should be some effect. The rocket will decelerate a little quicker due to air resistance.

True, but that means sacrificing airtime for... airtime. I don't know, it could work, but I don't know if the difference would be positive or negative. Still, good idea.