I think it is Adrian's second stage G to F shot from Oktoberfest.

Warren

I just thought of a question that had never crept into my mind before. If you fly a multi-stage rocket and recover the sustainer and the electronics, but NOT the booster, is this is viable TRA or NAR record?

I don't know. I'm curious. I don't do multi-staged rockets (not smart enough) 😯 so in my case it is purely an academic question. I've never seen it tossed about in any of the various forums?

In the case of a single-staged rocket, it has to come back in OK condition., which I understand and support. In this case, the sustainer looks fine. If the booster is lost, does that negate a record?

If that is a 24mm rocket (hard to tell?) and if it was calm (I wasn't there) and if it landed 3 miles away? Then that was a MONSTER boost, record or not!

Sweet!

That's my booster that I flew as a single stage on Sunday after my sustainer failed to ignite on Saturday. It looks like the altimeter and transmitter broke off or something, though. 🙁 But i think I threaded them onto the shock cord, so maybe they're deep inside next to the motor? (fingers crossed)

Wow, that really landed far away. Could you put a mark on this map
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=114868309855736157763.0004589a9594c47b95e9e
around where you found it?

Tomorrow morning I'm going back up with Chad to look for the other rocket I lost at Oktoberfest, which had my sustainer electronics and nose cone. I see you're from Cheyenne, but I'll be close enough tomorrow to pick it up if you're available. Maybe you can send me a PM

Thanks a million, Mike!

If that is a 24mm rocket (hard to tell?) and if it was calm (I wasn't there) and if it landed 3 miles away? Then that was a MONSTER boost, record or not!

The picture is of a 24mm booster, built around an Ellis G37, but with a weighted nosecone in place of the sustainer stage. Here's the whole 2-stage rocket, before I decided to add more red paint to the booster:

I flew the booster that Mike found on Sunday with about a 7-8 mph wind from SE to NW. It was pretty squirrely and had a pretty significant cone. I'm convinced now that all of my squirrely and/or coning boosts have been caused by having a misalignment between the CG and the motor thrust line. On Saturday I flew the front end of the sustainer together with a back end that I made for a single-stage attempt, and it flew nice and straight. This was the same configuration that coned badly and flew about 40 degrees from vertical at Hartsel in September. The difference was that I put in a weight in the side of the parachute compartment and rotated the top and bottom relative to each other until the rocket would roll smoothly on a flat surface, with the fins hanging off the edge. The booster you see in the picture was so overstable that I didn't bother to do that, but I should have.

I doubt it broke John's G record, since it's got a lot of fin area and some extra length, and it wasn't a straight flight. But I hope the electronics are attached inside so I can get some data.

In case you're curious and haven't seen this over at the build thread at RocketryPlanet, here is the 2-stage configuration with the internals also shown. The antenna in the sustainer's nosecone goes all the way to the tip of the nosecone, past the nose weight, which was cast around a spacer tube for the antenna. Not that it did much good, since the tracker's signal was intermittent in the air and then went out at landing, similar to Synergy's tracker at Hartsel, though this time with intermittent beeps throughout the descent. I think I broke the solder connection on the antenna when I was cramming everything in there on Saturday.

I could not figure out how to make a mark on the map... 😳

A little further east of our turn off is a ranch house on the south
side of the road.

Draw a line from that house to the road at the site
that goes to where the wind mill was. I found it about
1/4 mile from county road 122. On that line.

The center of below map is about right.
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=114868309855736157763.0004589a9594c47b95e9e&ie=UTF8&ll=40.873821,-104.616559&spn=0.007334,0.013819&t=h&z=16

Tell Me how to mark the map and I will...

I would be more than happy to show up at the site to give You
Your bird back. What time will You be there. and..What kind of
car. If You are out I can leave it under Your rig.

Mike,

Thanks for bringing the rocket by and dropping it off on that car hood (yours?) where I could find it. Hope you weren't put off by the fact that we parked further North up the road to be a little closer to the search area. We were in the blue Subaru. The whole rocket was intact and I got the data back. I'm looking at it now, and I think it might be a club and/or Tripoli record.

I'll update the map (maybe I'm the only one who can do it).

The search that Chad and I made for Saturday's rocket was unsuccessful, despite a lot of walking, a lot of binocular scanning, and a lot of binocular wiping, with the drizzle going on. But we covered a lot of ground to the North of the site. I'll update the map with today's search and the location of the rocket that Mike found.

Updated map:
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=114868309855736157763.0004589a9594c47b95e9e&ie=UTF8&ll=40.873821,-104.616559&spn=0.007334,0.013819&t=h&z=16

It was My car.

I walked today also.

Pawnee gave up no secrets today.

Oh. I did find the stopper out of My water jug, I lost
three launches ago.

Maybe next time.

As You said. At times this morning the fog was such I
had to use a compass not to loose direction. My glasses
needed wipers.

It was a fun time.

Mike,

I saw someone in the distance due East of the pads. Was that you? Chad now believes, (based on an impressive use of balloon sounding data) that my rocket should have landed 2300' E and 7200' N of the launch pad. I marked that on the map too.

Yes. I watched You pull up. Stop and drive north.

over two days. five or six hours walking. I covered from
the point I found Your rocket too some what more east
of chads latest est..

As You know, a person can walk right past something. I
hope I did not.

My 5300' launch sunday 10/5/. Went 70% of the way to where I
found Your rocket. I had duel deploy.
Mine drifted with the main deploying at 1000' to that 70%
location. From 300 or so yards of nw rocket weather cocking
at launch.

Your rocket must have went real high to have drifted so far
with just a streamer. WOW.