Comments on: Modern Day Miss Riley – Five Teachers at Wilder Elementary Have a Blast with Rockets

By: matthew

matthew — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:53:03 +0000

Dear.Mr Spangler,
Today was awesome!At about 11:12 we went out to launch our rockets,it lasted till about 12:20. When it was my turn to go up and launch my rocket I was feeling a little scared. Then it blasted off. When it was about 30 feet away from the launch pad the nose cone flew off when this happened I was pretty scared but it did fine. I think I could have prevented this from happening by attaching the nose cone on the outside instead of attaching it on the inside. I thought that my rocket was very aerodymamic. As I was watching other rockets and examining the other rockets I discovered that the rockets with no fins went farther than the ones with fins. I think that this happpened because when you are launching the rockets for distance you do not need it to be stable you just need it to be light with when you have no fins it helps. Now when you need it for hight it is the opposite. I think that my design would have worked better if i would of not had the fins,had a better material,and i could of made the fins shorter. I also could have improved it by following Newtons Laws better.

By: Bethany

Bethany — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:42:33 +0000

Today my whole class launched our homemade rockets.My
rocket was 2 diferent shades of blue.I had no finns on
it because I wanted to see how it would fly without them.
My rocket didn’t fly very well. It landed in a puddle of
water by the grass.I think I thnk I should hae put fins on my rocket. It might have went a further distance and it might have not have landed in the water. I didn’t like it when my rocket landed in the puddle. I liked it when Madison’s rocket blew into peices. Thank you Mr Spangler! YOU ROCK(ET)!

By: Meriah

Meriah — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:13:45 +0000

We had such a fun time launching the rockets, and when I lanched my rocket every one in the class went wild and said that mine went the farthest and I was in 3rd place. If I were to lanch the rocket again I would put more fins on the rocket insted of 2.

By: ryan

ryan — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:48:36 +0000

My rocket, FFTF1, flew 50 yards. It was mainly yellow, but had an orange top. No fins where on it, which I.. uh.. ok, no fancy excuses. I forgot the fins. Why it flew 50 yards is because the tube thingimajigilacallit was square-ish and tight. If only I got fins..
P.S. FFTF1 is short for “Flying Fishy the Furious 1.”