Today was the day we finalized our rocket design. Garrett suggested that we should make the rocket out of balsa wood to minimize the amount of weight, and I thought it was a good idea as well. In this design, we would get about 6 dowels and protecting them would be 8 thin pieces of balsa wood, acting as a tube. The fins we weren't to sure how to make, but as I searched online I figured the best shape would probably be a parallelogram, as supposedly that was the best for aerodynamic flow. Our parachute would be attached to our nose, so we would pop the nose of our cone and with that the parachute would come out.
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