Adrian

Thanks, Bear.And storm turned into a Category 4, annular hurricane, apparently pretty rare. And it didn’t even hurt anybody! Woo hoo!.http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/archive.html?year=2011&month=06I've been trying and failing to get a combination of 3 Js over 50kft the last couple of years at…   Read more»

Wow, 6 L3s! Not bad for a weekend. Congrats everyone.

Launching at Atlas in June would be new for me. Either there’s a mistake in the calendar or there’s something unusual about the North site availability this year.

More brainstorming: Have you calculated the differential pressure that your nosecone shear pins would have to withstand? Was the nosecone shoulder seated firmly against the airframe, to prevent your shear pins from taking G loads during the boost? Did the…   Read more»

Did you get data? I wouldn’t have thought it possible for a nosecone to fail before a tube or coupler, but I guess anything is possible. Maybe we could see what altitude it was at, and look for wind shear…   Read more»

Did you get data? I wouldn’t have thought it possible for a nosecone to fail before a tube or coupler, but I guess anything is possible. Maybe we could see what altitude it was at, and look for wind shear…   Read more»

Bummer about the porta-john blowing over. Hold down the Pawnee grasslands for me. I’m coming tomorrow, and hopefully bringing the light winds we’ve had down here.

Oil is all in a global market. Whatever extra we pump means that Saudi Arabia pumps less. If it were up to me, I would halt all American oil exploration and wait for 20 or 30 years for the price…   Read more»

Here’s what I’m reading this morning from this site, for 300 mbar (around 30,000 feet)http://squall.sfsu.edu/scripts/namjetstream_model_fcst.htmlFriday noon: 100 knots, W (~275 degrees)Saturday noon: 100 knots, W (~260 degrees)Saturday midnight: 75 knots, WSW (240 degrees)Sunday noon: 70 knots, SW (225 degrees)Sunday midnight:…   Read more»

A couple more thoughts on this. We may want to invite Bob (the landowner to the N) over to see the launch, and have a cold beer at the ready in case he’s interested –not that we would drink while…   Read more»

The land north of the ORV area is most definitely private land and I can’t count the number of times some of us have wandered about on that land. We’ve been VERY fortunate that the owner hasn’t caught us -…   Read more»

Looking at the map (http://telerover.com/rockets/NCR/NCR_NPawneePropertyOwners.pdf), east is actually relatively clear. To the north is the property people kept hitting last year.Indeed. The property to the North is outside of the Pawnee National Grasslands boundary. I have worked with the owner…   Read more»

JUST 1I ordered 1 pint of that Cotronics high temp epoxy. 600 deg f. $90.00Definitely be scraping every last drop off the bench with this stuff.1 gallon was a deal at $320.00I wanted to try it first, before I bit…   Read more»

Looks like the volunteer schedule on the site is still the one from last year. I’ll take a shift or two of LCO/RSO/pad manager any time Saturday afternoon through Sunday morning, as needed. Especially if somoene gets stuck and needs…   Read more»

By the way, it looks like the volunteer sheet on the web site is still for last year. I’m up for some volunteer duty for this year’s MHM once that starts getting coordinated.

I’d like to, but the only way I can attend this time is if I can get back to Highlands Ranch by 2:30, so I’ll need to leave by noon. I have an H altitude shot I’m going to try,…   Read more»

Radar shows 1/2″ at the North site so far, with an inch to the East and West.

Not to mention the May 7 Saturday launch on the calendar. Hopefully we’ll hear about some green popping up at the north site in the next week or so. I know my lawn’s weeds are springing up.

On my 38mm rockets, the plastic does not bottom out, and I can tighten it up to at least the point where there is a visible bulge in the tube from the outside. That stopper is not coming out, and…   Read more»

…and I got the idea from Ed Wranowski, who made an av-bay with compressed o-rings on each end to hold it in place. When I saw these at Home Depot, I recognized them as using the same principle, and they…   Read more»