Bottle Rocket Día Dos!!

Today was the second day of bottle rockets. We had to keep our rocket in the air for at least five seconds. In order to do this, most people added parachutes.
First we cut the top of another bottle and taped it to our other bottle. We did that because it would add length, which should make our rocket stay up a little longer because most rockets are longer rather that stout and short. Then we added some wings out of cardboard and taped them to the side of our bottle rocket.
We went and tried it out a few times without adding a parachute before lunch break. The first time it stayed up for about 3 seconds. The second time we tried shooting it up it slanted completely sideways and shot parallel to the ground for about 2 seconds. That obviously didn't work very well. We came back in to make the parachute. We just cut little circles out of a longs plastic bag. Then we cut strings and taped them to our bottle and cut holes in the side of the parachute.

Our bottle rocket still stayed up for 5 seconds at least twice. The other times that we tried to shoot it, it didn't stay up long enough. For tomorrow, we concluded that we need to have a larger parachute with the same length strings. We also need to remake our wings since they kind of fell apart.