Adrian

On my L shot, the Raven said 31,514 feet. The 32,014 initial reading was my error when punching the Telemetrum meters into my calculator to convert to feet. The actual Telemetrum altitude was 31,972. RASAero predicted an altitude in between…   Read more»

Yes I DO.And I will not be using it. And I will loan it all weekend.I will have it in my case with the cool tool the guys in our shop put togeather. It has a new nozzle retainer because…   Read more»

I have 1/2 inch of snow here in Highlands Ranch. Looking at the forecast for Carr, it looks like winds are expected 15-30 throughout the day, in addition to the rain. My plan had been to drive out mid-day today,…   Read more»

Actually, I don’t think the choice of week is the biggest problem. It is the limitations of the days. With commercial motors excluded on Sunday and most people unable to make Fri, then a Saturday rain ruins things for a…   Read more»

Thanks guys. I’ll check my local hobby store and good suggestion on the industrial fastener store. Worse comes to worst I’ll just ground test in the rain on Saturday with screws from the better-prepared.

Sunday still looks good. That’s what I’ll be shooting for. Now I just need to decide if I’m going to try to set up on Saturday. I still need to do some ground testing and I can’t find my nylong…   Read more»

I’m looking forward to this weekend. The rocket designing and building bug hit me hard recently, after I thought I was close to a cure.I’m working on a single-stage L record attempt rocket, partly to test out a design I…   Read more»

I’ll be happy to do some LCO/RSO duty. Not sure when I’ll be arriving/available enough to commit to a time now, though. I’ll jump in when there is a need.

Thanks, everybody. Sorry I couldn’t be there.

I would bet one of the strap-ons alone would put a couple hundred pounds at least into LEO.Given that UP Aerospace and Cesaroni both have casually quoted me $50K for a T-class motor, you’d probably be talking at least $10M…   Read more»

Thanks, Scott. With the club’s shovel I got all of it out. The chute appears to be salvageable

Found!This rocket was found just on the near side of the closest gully. Sorry I forgot the name of the rocketeer who found it for me, but the parts that were still buried were nicely marked so that I could…   Read more»

And the 38mm is a 7:1 Von Karman, the only one commercially available as far as I know. I happened to buy one last night, as a matter of fact.

It was a grat day for a launch.Had many great flights.Four Successful Level Three Certification Flights.Sunday was great also.Thanks to all that make a launch possible. 😀 +Movie: http://s46.photobucket.com/albums/f131/mshinn2001/NCR%20July%202011%20Launch%20Movie/Pics: https://picasaweb.google.com/mshinn2001/NCRJulyLaunch#Thanks to Mike, too, who…[Read more]

Looks like the weather is cooperating, with some good rain the last 2 days. Somewhere over an inch. Light to moderate winds and seasonal temperatures are expected throughout the weekend. Friday has the highest chance for precipitation, at 40%. Upper…   Read more»

I guess I can’t read the calendar correctly Sounds good, though, to have a couple of options for weather.

Thanks, Steve. I’m glad you liked it.

If you could have the wings swing out, where they fold forwards and swing backwards at activation and the pivot is at the rear, then you could have swing wings out like on a tomahawk cruise missile. That should solve…   Read more»

I hope my interest in this doesn’t slow anybody else down. There’s a good chance that I’m never going to get the round tuit needed to complete the project. It’s fun to think about, though.Also, my job isn’t much help…   Read more»

I’ve been toying with this idea myself; I even got a couple of 4″ blue tubes when they were on sale recently. I figure with a couple of carbon-over-foam 4″ chord wings, that swing outwards from the back end, someone…   Read more»