I'll be there and will available to push buttons, etc. Just have one flight I need to make. I'll save ground testing for a friend's backyard. IF a person can't be found to haul the trailer to the site, PLEASE contact people so they won't make a long trip for nothing. Tim Thomas has to drive from Delta, and that's quite a trip.

If we do have a launch which i hope ill be there. I cna help with whatever is needed

The launch is on - thanks to Ken Plattner for volunteering to tow the trailer!

The launch is on - thanks to Ken Plattner for volunteering to tow the trailer!

Yeah, and Ken is also our treasurer... with a truck! Thanks, Ken! You da' man!

And I won't be able to make it to the first launch in 4 months 🙁

Ahh well - hopefully I can make it next month...

So how hardcore are you guys? I was planning on being there, but the current forecast is calling for temps in the 30's and 15-25 mph winds. I'm starting to think maybe tomorrow is a building day instead 🙁

The plan is still to launch. The wind is supposed to be dying and temps are supposed to be rising. Sunday might turn out to be even a better day but Saturday is what we've got to play with. Plan on the cold and mud and we'll deal with it.

So how hardcore are you guys?

By Joe's message, you can see... we're pretty hardcore. 8) Tim Thomas is already on the road from Delta, CO. I have his phone number to call him if the launch gets cancelled, but that's not gonna happen. My gear is piled in the livingroom and will be moved to my Element as early as possible tomorrow morning, including my L3 for ground testing. 🙂

Addendum: I think it was last November's launch (or maybe June's--all I can remember accurately was that it was last year 🙂 ), most had left. But a few of us remained. I had put my flight on the pad in hail, then the winds came, so I had to take it down. THEN the cold rain came. Ken Plattner and his sons, Tim Thomas and I were huddled under Tim's tent. I was soaked and cold from my feet to just above my knees, wondering why the hell I was there in that condition. Tim--I think--was the one who told us about James Russell, in worse conditions rain-wise, was found by friends huddled under his bird's parachute after he went out to get it in a very heavy rain. Hardcore? Oh, yeah... 8)

Well, I'm hurrying to finish Ryan's Alpha. Thank God for 5 minute epoxy. It won't look too good but it will fly...

Also have Cone Head and Nathan's Mercury Redstone, plus a few others and a whole lot of C6-5's.

See ya all there!

I would certainly be up there if I didn't have another place I had to be...

Thanks go out to Ken Plattner and Dennis Billings for signing up to tow the trailer. Thanks a million guys!

Also, we can't forget to thank the LCOs who signed up - Joe H., Art H., Bruce S. and Warren M.

My wife asked me to get something done before I went out to play, so I got to the Atlas site about noon... and no one was there, except for a wind that was hard to stand up in. Hmmm... guess that's why. You can wait out rain, but not prairie wind. Well, there's next month, huh? Tim, sorry I couldn't let you know it time, but you probably knew before I did. 😳

'Twas miserable indeed. I didn't plan to fly anything, but did want to go hang with the cool kids for a bit. Conditions were wretched.

This group has always had a nice launch in December OR January OR February. Now we have missed all of those plus March. It has been a long time since anything was lit. My hunch is that we will make up for it in spades when the time comes? If April allows us to fly at the N site, I'll start things off with a notable blast. Or two. I'm sure there will be others....

JW

Conditions were wretched.

Last January ('06) it was in the 60's, February ('06) at least mid-50's, March fine, etc. Boy, if you include last summer's fire ban, we've had too many non-launches. I've had a J420R loaded (with loosened end pieces) since Oktoberfest... 😯