[Provided by Rick Unland, the builder]

Phoenix Design,

The Phoenix was built to use up to 8 38mm motors surrounding a central 98mm, 
It also has a removable 54mm motor mount for the central position. The 54 
was used to house a K1100 and I had 2 38mm Vulcan I283's in the outboards. 
The rest of the 38's were empty. The 54mm motor mount was used as this was 
my level two cert flight.

The recovery system used a Cambridge Group Accelerometer the IAX-95 and
a Pratt ECS2B and two deployment charges of four grams each. Charge one
was hooked to channel one on the Cambridge and Channel two on the Pratt.
Charge 2 was connected to channel 1 on the Pratt. Charge one was to be
fired at apogee or Tmax which was 11.97 seconds by the Cambridge and
charge two was to be a backup which I could fire manually.

The Flight,

        All three motors were lit simultaneously using electric matches
and thermalite. The 2 I283 Vulcans fired first, as seen in the picture,
.7 seconds later the K1100 reached full pressure and flamed on just after
this picture was taken. It then reached an altitude of about 700 feet
where it weather cocked hard into the wind. It then weather cocked
again at burnout, where because of the lighter aft section it became
stable. It continued in about a 50 degree flight path until it reached about
1800 feet. At this time the Cambridge unit fired the number one charge at
Tmax or 11.97 seconds. I also fired the Pratt which deployed the chute
using the other charge. It actually took both charges to blow the nose
cone. The 14foot Rocketman chute then deployed bringing the rocket back
safely.

Phoenix Statistics,

Diameter        9.25"
Height          89" or 7.4 feet
Weight Body     20.5lbs
Nose weight     9lbs
Chute           Rocketman 14'

Rick Unland
TRA 4383


[Note: Rick is looking for a photo taken after the K1100 lit.  If you have
 one let me (Bill) know and I'll pass the word on.]