Big Red Shred - at Mach 2.3

And the rocket’s red glare… bursting in air ♫ ♪
My red fiberglass + aluminum rocket disintegrated overhead on a N5800 CStar motor at BALLS 31, thematic for the Fourth of July.
At Max Q with 32g of acceleration, the airframe buckled at its midpoint (the avionics bay coupler should have been longer), and the carbon fiber nose cone collapsed soon thereafter (too shallow of a winding angle). This led to a RUD in the sky, shearing off of all three aluminum fins and shredding the parachute. Both video cameras sheared off as well into free fall. I recovered one, but the video cam filled its memory before launch due to various launch delays (big disappointment, as I would have loved to have seen the rocket cam's view of the mayhem!).
Bottom line: this monster motor shreds over 90% of minimum diameter airframe attempts, and I learned a lot from mine.
Build photos: flic.kr/p/2oXbBFF

[@prometheus1672]

That’s what makes building rockets so cool, the opportunity to test and push the limits of engineering in so many areas simultaneously, all in one package. Where else can you experiment with electronics, radio, chemistry, material science, aerodynamics, and construction techniques all at once, and with fire? lol, nice rocket and cool photos and video 👍😎

[@cburrowz]

Cool seeing the flight control compensating the partial RUD 👍😎🚀🚀

[@jmstudios457]

N5800? Edit for clarity: I watched 30 seconds, then read the description, it was pretty easy to guess what was happening.