ROCKET - Estes Comanche 3
DATE - 6-16- 97 
ENGINE - D12-0, C6-0, B6-4
STATUS - R.I.P.
HOW'D IT GO - Two words; LAWN DART. This thing was totally messed up when I got it back. Since liftoff this one was a dud. I shoved the engines in and 5…4…3…2…1…liftoff! I followed it with my binoculars but it was pretty far away by the time I found it. I watched it closely and saw that the stages never fell off. The rocket started to fall but the streamers never came out. It took a 300 foot dive into the dirt about 50 feet away from me. When I got up close the nose cone was buried about four inches in the ground, the body tube was torn apart, and the fins were falling off. There was no engine in the C stage, the front of the B stage engine was black, and the A stage engine was completely untouched. So what happened was the D booster fired but didn't ignite the C booster, just charred it, therefore the B6-4 engine was never ignited and the ejection charge never pushed the recovery system out. I've read that a lot of people have had the same problem I did with the stages not igniting and the body tube is extremely thin and flexible so I wouldn't recommend spending the $15.00 on this "paper" rocket. I've glued the fins back together and trashed the body. I'm going to try to make a smaller rocket out of the of the leftover, but repaired C and B stages. Here's a picture of what's left of my Comanche 3.