+### Second Flight
+
+In 2021, the NAR National Sport Launch was held near Alamosa, CO. Doug
+Gerrard planned to be there with his camera-laden launch pad so there was
+the possibility of a highly-documented launch. Since I
+really wanted to fly this project in Colorado and that was a national-scale
+event, plans were made. As a NAR sanctioned event, the motor needed to be
+commercial and not research. Simulations led to the choice of a CTI N3301
+White Thunder which would fit case hardware already on hand. This would
+require fabricating an adapter from the 6" motor mount to the 98mm
+motor, but that seemed easy enough. My thanks to the good folks at
+[Moto-Joe Rocketry](http://moto-joe.com/) for helping me obtain the reload.
+
+Unfortunately, logistics issues prevented flying at the NSL. The second
+flight ended up happening on Sunday, 19 September 2021, at the
+[Tripoli Colorado](https://www.tripolicolorado.org/) Fall Frenzy launch.
+
+In addition to the rebuilt main airframe section and motor adapter, at
+the last minute, Meh-ga Nuke was equipped with two keychain cameras mounted
+looking up and down.
+
+The rocket was about 145 pounds on the rail of Terry Lee's launch trailer,
+and was flowing with 2 e-matches and a pinch of Pyrodex P in the Tender
+Descender, and apogee charges of 6g primary and "fill the cup"
+secondary. The rocket departed the rail with about 5.5g max acceleration
+on the way to Mach 0.7 and an apogee altitude of 9183 feet. The dual
+deployment process worked as designed, but unfortunately the shround on
+the main tangled, probably due to a hasty repacking of the deployment bag
+during assembly on the rail. Wind pushed the airframe ENE out of the
+optimal landing area and into a "field of rocks", where the higher than
+expected landing velocity of the main airframe and fin can assembly and
+wind drag resulted in cosmetic damage to the fin can and more significant
+damage to the main airframe tube. The nose cone also suffered damage as
+a result of the wind causing the chutes to pull it across rocks.
+
+The video from the up-looking camera worked great through apogee, but
+unfortunately the video froze before the main deployed so only audio was
+recorded for the rest of the flight. The down-looking camera video came
+out very well, though! It shows only a couple rotations of the airframe
+during ascent with some great view of the flight line, etc. It also
+captured the nose cone and two 5 foot surplus military parachutes deployed
+at apogee travelling past the main airframe rapidly at apogee. The
+shadow of the nose cone and associated chutes descending independently can
+be seen in the video before landing... and the very violent landing of
+the fin can and main airframe can be clearly seen.
+
+All in all, this second flight was another huge crowd-pleaser and very
+satisfying overall. Particular thanks to Terry Lee for his help
+rebuilding the main airframe and the use of his launch trailer, George
+Barnes IV for his outstanding photos on launch day, and my wife Karen who
+attended the launch with great enthusiasm despite being only a few weeks
+into the recovery from major surgery.
+
+I think the primary lesson learned from this flight is that the design
+of the airframe pretty much guarantees the main airframe tube is going
+to be damaged in each flight. The video proof of what we already
+understood intellectually about the dramatic reversal of direction the
+airframe
+undergoes at apogee when the nose comes off and the drogue chutes deploy
+alone is enough to rip the leading edge of the airframe apart back to the
+first centering ring below the nose shoulder. So, even without landing
+in rocks and being dragged due to high winds by the main chute, we
+probably just need to acknowledge the main airframe is in some ways a
+"single use" design.
+