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No It is as per the date on the Site. Should be a Saturday evening. Feb 9th at 7pm.Now I also still would like to see if any of the folks out there would like to make any donations to…   Read more»

Dave, can you confirm the date? Your Web site says Saturday 2-9-08 @ 7 PM, while I could have sworn someone said Sunday 2-10-08 @ 6 PM at the annual meeting. I just may be hearing those voices again… 😯

Troy, put me down for one of each hat styles, as we talked about.

Thanks Bruce. And a Happy new year to you and all as well.

Truth be told – we learn more from mistakes – ours and others – then we do from our successful launch and recoveries.

Oh well. One Month later Im a lot smarterThat’s the way it goes in this hobby. Theory will only get you so far – actual practice is necessary to determine what actually works. I learned the hard way and so…   Read more»

I just weighed the whole thing on a postage scale. I know Rock sim aint perfect, but I think 14 is going to be closer than 10. I also tested a couple of ejection charges.I used a bag of Ice…   Read more»

I was sitting here looking at this motor specs and was wodering how long of a ejction delay an (M) was? When I looked it up (10 sec.) I guess the “M” delays are standard packaging.I decided that it wasnt…   Read more»

Scott,The iffiness of motor ejection delays was what lead me to electronic deployment. I found instances where Rocksim says you need 12 sec and AT comes in 10 or 14, both of which lead to 100+mph deployments. There is a…   Read more»

Scott, Aerotech delays come in S (short), M (medium, and L (long). There isn’t a generic S-M-L delay; it depends on the propellant. All reloads come with M delays. I’ll send you two files that can help you decide which…   Read more»

JamesR wrote: Scott, the loss is very little because the hole is small that allows the fire from the smoke/delay grain to light the BP. It is also on one side of the closure or insulation disc so it is…   Read more»

Scott, the loss is very little because the hole is small that allows the fire from the smoke/delay grain to light the BP. It is also on one side of the closure or insulation disc so it is also some…   Read more»

Yep your right. I was thinking it was 06 but time fly’s so fast its hard to keep track. Must mean im getting way to old.

WOW. We are Both wrong. it was MHM 2006.I think. Oct. 2005 Did not happen because of ‘ Unforeseen Circumstances’My files got crammed into one file some how.Found them, and a couple pictures.www.putfile.com/pic.php?img=7400465My camera was not very good them. I…   Read more»

I was at the Event Horizon launch in Oct. 06. I have the DVD.But I did not know this was on the internet.Pretty Coolhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1828082600896083728Actually I believe Event Horizon flew at MHM of 07. The Oct 06 launch I believe was…   Read more»

Well the original plan was to fly it in my L3 project at Mayhem, but it’s probably going to be on the backburner a few more months past that. I don’t want it to get in the way of my…   Read more»

Interesting, I would like to see how it turns out. Greg and Brad have been working on the GPS add-on for the RMCS, should be ready to beta fly at the April Ex launch if we have it at the…   Read more»

What I’ve been sorta planning on doing is using a gumstix with 3 serial ports. One port goes to my GPS chip, another to the RF wireless chip and the third to either an as-yet undesigned data acquisition and sensor…   Read more»

So I have no experience with the gumstix, the fun part is the two different data streams. GPS data and live telemetry at the same time over the same serial downlink unless you plan to do them separate the downlinks…   Read more»

I used to program firmware in C, and that’s what you’ll need. I know there has to be a few geeks in the club who do it. The guys that Doug suggested surely know how to use digital sensors, and…   Read more»