Valkyrie Recovery Systems - Explorer drogue parachute

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Dave S.

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I used a drogue parachute that was a 24 inch size Explorer from Valkyrie Recovery Systems on my first dual deploy flight. I saw the info about it on TRF as I was building the rocket. I have had one failure (crash) of a rocket due to parachute entanglement, so I decided to try the Valkyrie Explorer to try my best to not have that happen again.

The motor used was an I500 DMS. It worked perfectly! I have a youtube video of it, but its just crummy cell phone video:



This is a blurry picture of my rocket with just the Valkyrie deployed and a picture of me with the rocket before the flight:

2024-05-04 b3 Orange Sherbet in flight - drogue chute open.png2024-04-27 Formula 98 Me 1.jpeg
 
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