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The data from the Talon 4 flight. As you can see, the main parachute never ejected. I took me a while to figure out why since the altimeter was beeping happily on the ground. Turns out that a pair of the twisted wires had worn through their insulation and were shorted. There was no way to see it. Remarkably, the rocket came out of this unscathed. I guess I built it right.
 
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