Your found item sounds like one of the boosters for Doug Gerrard's Freeze Frame.

Ken

Anyone find my Wacky Wiggler yet?

It is Doug's, I have it now and will see that he gets it.

any idea were you found it?

It is Doug's, I have it now and will see that he gets it.

any idea were you found it?

Go to maps.google.com and in the entry box for "search maps" type in "doug's booster.". I'd post the link here directly except it's really long and the iPhone doesn't do cut and paste.

Your found item sounds like one of the boosters for Doug Gerrard's Freeze Frame.

Ken

Anyone find my Wacky Wiggler yet?

Yep. It was back at the LCO table on Sunday afternoon.

Thanks Adrian, it looks like it was in the same area as the rest of the rocket.

Found: A very odd rocket part that appears to have been some sort of an outboard booster. It was red, about 54mm, minimum diameter, and had what appear to be 2 mounting pads on one side, and 2 fins on the other. When I picked it up, it started beeping slowly. I set it next to the driver's door of a van that was still parked at the site when I left.

THANK YOU very much Adrian!!! James will hold on to it until I can return. Thanks again,

Doug

Adrian,
What day and time were your launches? I ask because my launch to 4600' on Saturday at 2pm indicated more wind aloft from due south than at the surface. I almost lost my little 24mm E bird.

Good luck.

THANK YOU very much Adrian!!!

You're welcome, Doug. Those booster attach fittings were really interesting. I couldn't figure out how they worked.

Adrian,
What day and time were your launches? I ask because my launch to 4600' on Saturday at 2pm indicated more wind aloft from due south than at the surface. I almost lost my little 24mm E bird.

Good luck.

Congratulations on your E flight (a new record?), and thanks for the info.
On Saturday, my near-vertical launch was also right around 2. Maybe I was looking too far West.

Afterward I used binoculars from the hills. The binoculars really helped, and using them I found 2 rockets from other people, including one that was just the same color and configuration as mine, from about 1/3 of a mile away, so I'm reasonably confident of where the rocket is not. I marked those areas on the google map: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=114868309855736157763.0004589a9594c47b95e9e Now that I look at it, the area north of the mounded hill could be promising. Could you mark on the map where yours was found?

Also, I did search some on the plateau that looks blank, but without any really distinct hills there I couldn't be very systematic about it.

Those booster attach fittings were really interesting. I couldn't figure out how they worked.

There was a few others interested in them. I had a hand in their development but my friend has a web page describing them. Their is a pdf on how their made and photo clips and a movie of how they work. It's not in high speed like my stuff but...

http://dmf-rockets.com/boost_drop/index.html

They are really quite remarkable how strong they are and they work flawlessly (when the e-match goes off). In the case of Freeze Frame on Sunday, the timer didn't fire any of the matches so they stayed attached. But it was no fault of the booster droppers. We fired them before removing the motor casing when it was returned.

Doug

Adrian,
Rich Rueter found my rocket, and described it as South of the fenceline and just west of the access road. This would be roughly 4000' from the launch pad bearing 340. My rocket had a slight lean to the SW on boost, so my interpretation was that the average wind was from 180 and roughly 18 mph.

I'll be happy to head out to the North Site and help you look, and maybe you could throw a few rocket design technique bones my way. email me at chadair at mac dot com if you want to take me up on this

Chad

PS. It appears I have bested Warren's E record by about 400' with my little balsa-paper rocket "Eponymous."

Not for long my friend, not for long. Winter is coming and with it my building season and I have quite a few little projects in the pipeline - a D, E, F, and G series of birds and a K bird specific for the Loki K350, rebuilding my 54mm L330 bird for either Mayhem or BALLS with an eye on the TRA world L record (I've got the VonKarman nose for it) and of course finishing the last 5% of my L3 bird and a minimum diameter N1100 bird for BALLS in 09... now all I have to do is find all the boxes where this stuff ended up when I moved 2 months ago.

Congratulations by the way.

Warren

Man! I was supposed to bask in the glory of my club record and rest on my laurels. Now I'm going to have to work harder. What a stressful hobby 😉

I think I'm going to buy some carbon fiber tomorrow and start sketching out some design improvements for a 24mm bird.

Good luck- I'm curious to see what you come up with and what altitudes you reach with all your projects.

I'll be happy to head out to the North Site and help you look, and maybe you could throw a few rocket design technique bones my way.

Chad, that's a very generous offer. I wasn't sure I was going to go back but I found that I'll have some time on Saturday morning if you're available then. If you're on the way, I'll pick you up to save some gas.

Adrian's latest google map of what was searched. Might also be useful for Bdale and maybe others.

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=114868309855736157763.0004589a9594c47b95e9e