Sleep is over-rated but well deserved for everyone that helped with any aspect of making MHM 2010 the super event it was. Huge and extreme thanks to the set up crew, flight operators, flyers, spectators,vendors, USFS,FAA, Mother Nature and the range cleanup crew. Heartfelt thanks for the food, fun and fantastic time on the range. Preliminary numbers suggest a new attendance record, at least twelve newly certified or heightened levels for certified fliers, new altitude records. Way to go NCR!
446 flights - a third of them Class 2.
massive thanks to you Joe. Great fun and lots of exercise for me. Think I actually lost weight chasing rockets.
It was fun; though, I was a zombie at work today.
Is it Saturday yet???
Again, thanks to everyone out there.
What a great event! My son Grant and I arrived Friday evening and stayed through Monday Morning. We had a terrific time and got to really spend some quality father & son time together as a bonus!
Watching the experimental "O" motor Nike Smoke's successful flight on Sunday was spectacular!
This was the first time we stayed overnight at a launch and we were not disappointed. Grant and I want to thank everyone who put in the hard work to make MHM what it was. (I flew to Toronto the next morning and had to suck it up for the first day or so of my business trip...we really did some hiking chasing our rockets last weekend :0)
Thanks Again,
Paul and Grant Fecteau
We had a great time!
Keith and I have a pile of TeleMetrum production board flight data to dig through. We clearly need to nail down a better logging process so we don't spend so much time after an event figuring out which serial number boards were in which airframes for which launches on which motors, but that's just book keeping.
Congrats to Bill Mott on his successful L3 with a TeleMetrum along for the ride, he now holds the impulse and altitude records for flying one of our boards. I'll have to see if I can't relieve him of those burdens before the end of the flying season... 😉
My New Zealand buddy Mike and his wife are back to Dunedin safely, and his airframe should get there sometime next week. He had never flown a rocket before, and I really want to thank everyone for helping make his time on the flight line with us such a great experience! His insisting on electronic deployment for his first ever rocket launch, then toughing it out through 3 attempts learning new field repair techniques until he achieved a completely successful L2 flight with dual deployment on Monday was a heck a lot of fun to watch!
Thanks again to everyone involved in making MHM 2010 such a great time for all!
Yes, thanks all for the fantastic experience. I enjoyed it so much, that I may yet make it an annual trip to visit Bdale and family for 'treatment' of my newfound addiction to AP!
Hey Joe, thanks for posting the USFS "report card" on us. Glad to know we got an A-. Let's keep it that way or do better (and not run into the gate).
I think that wire on the gate needs replaced every year. What do you think of the club offering to upgrade it. I found this on Craigslist
http://denver.craigslist.org/grd/1800333309.html
A couple new posts, bags of concrete, small length of chain to secure it, and were good.
The club has offered to help with repair/replacement/upgrades. USFS has been in discussion with Grazing Rights Association regarding a Cattle Guard to replace the gate as a possibility. Given the amount of traffic thru the gate for the ATV area in the months we are not out there, there is lots of room for discussion and NCR has offered to assist. Still in negotiation/discussion. Thanks.