THE CRASH OF THE
Bow your heads and pay your respects to a brave model rocket
who was once so grand which served the planet andy fleet faithfully for
several years but now will remain in an alarmed display case behind velvet
ropes in our flight museum frozen in its final moment of glory. On May
26, 2008 after a smoth ascent to about 500 feet under the power of a C11-5
engine, the parachute failed to deploy. The Scorpion SLS apogeed, descended
nose first gaining energy and accelerating to a frightening velocity based
on Einstein's theory. The nose cone hit the ground horizontally preceeding
the body tube which then penetrated the nosecone at impact. In rocketry
nomenclature this is a rare and previously unheard of self inflicted core
sample.