Black Widow

Black Widow
Diameter	3.125 inches (79mm)
Length	7 feet 8 inches (2.3 m)
Weight (no motor)	11 lbs. 9 oz. (5.2 kg)
Motor Size	54mm
Number of Flights	5
Highest Altitude	13570 feet AGL (TeleGPS) (4136 m)
Highest Speed	1325 ft/sec (903 mph, Mach 1.18) (Raven, accelerometer)
Status	Being refitted
Sim File	https://github.com/DanCrank/openrocket-sim-files/blob/master/BlackWidow.ork

Black Widow is a rocket I built in late 2015 / early 2016 to replace Home Alone after its crash in Elsberry. The kit is a Rocketry Warehouse (now Composite Warehouse) Dominator 3, no longer in production. It's very similar in size to Home Alone, but with a different fin shape featuring a curved trailing edge. The kit came with a very nice looking red-anodized nose cone tip and tailcone motor retainer, so I finished it in a black and red color scheme.

• Frame from onboard camera looking down at two men, while the rocket is on the launch pad.

  View from onboard camera.

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  First liftoff.

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  Landed in the Argonia dust.

Launches

NARAM 58 (2016), J449 NARAM 58 (2016), K530 Airfest 22 (2016), L1040 Midwest Power 14 (2016), K830 SLRA Fall 2016, K650