Parachute Assembly for Model Rockets

Video Transcript

"Now we have a rocket, but the rocket needs to come down safely. To do that you can come down safely in a couple of ways. One is by using what they call streamers, which are like ribbons or another way you can come down safely is by using a parachute. There is one other method of what they call model rocket recovery and that is tumble recovery. Tumble recovery only works for really small rockets. Usually with this size model and bigger, you use parachutes. Sometimes you also use streamers, based on how high it goes. To do this, the parachute comes in a package, you have to open that package. Like so, take out the pieces of the contents of the package, open, open the parachute and there it is. The parachute, this one happens to have come assembled which is nice. And all you have to do is make the strings straight. Some parachutes you have to actually cut the chute out and you also have to mount the mounting rings to attach these threads, this is already pre done, it's very nice. Now that's a parachute."