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MikeWhen flying and shootinf pictures, you should go by a check list.1.Lens cap off2 Camera on.3 Take Picture.Did you loose any wieght from all that running?

it has ALWAYS been a function of programmer bandwidthWarren quit being such a nay-sayer and pull the crap out of your ears and open you mind. The AP Bonfire contest does NOT require “programmer bandwidth”. It never has.we’re trying to…   Read more»

Allowing EX motors is an intrinsic part of this Doug. We want to allow for EX motors as well as arbitrary clusters and staged birds. There even is a good plan for how to do this – the dilemma is…   Read more»

it has ALWAYS been a function of programmer bandwidthWarren quit being such a nay-sayer and pull the crap out of your ears and open you mind. The AP Bonfire contest does NOT require “programmer bandwidth”. It never has.we’re trying to…   Read more»

Warren – I agree: the current thrustcurve links are deep links into the site for motor data. There is now a service interface to actually pull the motor attributes. We could almost transparently drop our motor database and replace it…   Read more»

As I’ve said before Doug, it has ALWAYS been a function of programmer bandwidth. The AP Bonfire as well as pretty much all the other contests run automatically once we set them up. If they require much human intervention, they…   Read more»

Ah – found it.AP Bonfire 2008Thanks, Doug – I’ll read thru that and will be talking with Warren this week.

I don’t recall what your solution was – I’ll look for it on the forums. Fixing it would be great. We don’t me to avoid or ignore the issues – we may just be naively oversimplifying.

Why are you avoiding the issue? Although the post was originally under the launch logs topic, both Scott and Edward were asking why the AP Bonfire Contest does not accurately reflect what they burned. I brought this up last year…   Read more»

From a database perspective, I think we’d need to have a table for motors used that would be linked from the flight record table via a unique ID as a one to many relationship from the flight record. I think…   Read more»

Yes, The chilli was awesome….outside the family is banning me from eating it again and riding home with them.

wimps, afraid of a little wildlife in the car…. Those darn growler monkey can be mean though.

Yes, The chilli was awesome….outside the family is banning me from eating it again and riding home with them.

Hey Mike,Thanks for the Chile, Good stuff!!!Hey, and I finally met the other – other Greg….. Nice to meet such an awesome named person.

The chili was very good thank you

Hi All, Sunday’s launch 11-8-09,is cancelled due to high fire danger. Keep checking site for further developements as to next scheduled launches. JJoe will be contacting us to let us know. Keep tuned…..

Yes You Bet.I never got to fly but there was a great bunch ofpeople there. Most of the chili was gone. thanks.Posting pictures of the Nov. 7 launch.Joe said posting pictures was aok.http://picasaweb.google.com/mshinn2001/Nov7thLaunch#

Thanks for bringing to chili, Mike!

In my box of hybrid motors I did find a hybrid research grain that I would like to fly – I won’t be able to be there Sunday but I can get it to someone – anyone want to fly…   Read more»

Thanks for the info. Do you have the forecast like this for Sunday?

Here is the wind aloft forecast for Saturday. These will be updated at 6am in the NWS site. Altitudes are MSL, not AGL. The first line reads: Winds at 4000′ AGL, direction 220 @ 8 knots, temperature 9 degrees celsius…   Read more»