Adrian

At a yard sale last year I got one of these Kelty carport shelters, and it held up well at BALLS, when the cold front came through and the wind was whipping at 40+ mph//cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250668373263&rvr_id=&crlp=1_263602_263622&UA=WXF%3F&GUID=6a9107901290a06752350585ffb54732&itemid=250668373263&ff4=263602_263622I’m sure…[Read more]

Yeah, this is a pretty long rocket, and there aren’t any full L motors now in 54mm, so I don’t think we will break 30k tomorrow even if we hit it with the L930 Imax.

Is this that woven carbon-nanotube airframe with depleted uranium nosecone project you guys were working on? With you 3 on it, we know it’s going to either be cool or REALLY cool, and WAY up there!-KenThanks. This rocket won’t have…   Read more»

John Wilke, Warren and I are planning to fly new 54mm collaborative effort that will require the call-in waiver.

This is a picture that I got of the flight line at MHM, good crowd!Cool photos; those are a lot of fun to look at.Was that from Friday? I think on Saturday and Sunday we had a little more attendance…   Read more»

Yep. Colorado was well represented with quite a few flyers who put on a great show. I only wish I could say I helped our batting average Larry and Max’s prolific flying was flawless when not using AT metalstorm…   Read more»

Yeah, I was trying to figure out the photo as well. The main airframe looks completely intact (at the moment), but then I saw the motor ABOVE it! 😕 You built that thing like a tank, so if it’s totalled,…   Read more»

The Magna Frame from GLR looks really interesting. Ed/Joe should post something about it in the Vendor section.I’ll give it a go for some smaller stuff.It’s fun as there is more and more selection for construction materials on the market.Time…   Read more»

I used the Dog Collar GPS that some club members are in on. My last fix was 1.5 miles WSW of the launch site at 21,600 feet AGL. I’m not quite sure if my main deployed or drogue only. The…   Read more»

Wondering if anyone knows what the wind direction was sunday at MHM from 10:00 to 11:00 from 10,000 feet AGL to 20,000 AGL. I lost GPS tracking of my rocket at about 21,000 feet AGL and have no idea which…   Read more»

Adrian if you can somehow pull some data off of these that would be amazing:Ouch. Your data is on the part that used to be attached to the pads labeled “U$9” and is apparently now somewhere in a deep hole….   Read more»

Is there a chance the Raven data is recoverable? The accel data might provide a clue about what happened when the charges went off.

That should be just enough if your sim is accurate. Are you using Rocksim, and what kind of nosecone in the sim and on your rocket? If Rocksim is over-predicting your drag your rocket could be at risk of a…   Read more»

Hello,I will be attempting a two-stage flight this weekend using a PML Quantum Leap. Most likely using Js for both stages. Does anyone have experience with using shear pins to secure the two stages? I used them successfully for general…   Read more»

The radar says the North site got pummeled by a storm tonight, with about an inch of rain.

For those of us making use of the call-in windows, here’s the jet stream forecast: (Updated for 2 PM MDT Friday)The menu for the different days is here//squall.sfsu.edu/crws/jetstream_fcsts.htmlThe jet stream associated with that big trough predicted to move Eastward slowly,…   Read more»

As for RSO, it would be nice if this year we had the RSO set up with the flight cards in a tent slightly distanced from the pad lines (as is often done at large events), as in the past,…   Read more»

I volunteered by email for RSO or LCO on Saturday and Sunday, 12-2.

Clearly they shouldn’t have been flying that sparkie that day, but for an explanation that make it more understandable about why they did, see the first-hand account on post #60, from the SLI mentor John Chandler//www.rocketryplanet.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6524&page=6

Unfortunately, there is a third camp in the comments in that thread that is loudly proclaiming that rocket launches will cause fires, no matter what mitigation steps are taken. That’s not exactly helpful to the efforts to convince the landowners…   Read more»