Adrian

I don't think that electrical interference will be a problem. I haven't found a case yet in which there is any discernible effect on the Raven from a transmitter or other electronics. Having a beeli...

Good call, John. I thought you were talking about the first landing opportunity. Hopefully we will get a similar overhead trajectory tomorrow, too.

8:30 Eastern (6:30 Mountain...Right now!)

Wow, great pictures, Ray!

The guy wasn't even wearing a helmet 😯 I'm not sure a helmet would be enough to make much of a difference if something went wrong. 😯 Not for the announcer, certainly.

Thanks for the info Adrian, I may head back out there again this week if I get a chance. I have a friend with a plane too so I may do your approach to trying to find it. How long did it take you fly...

The upper level winds were heading almost straight West to East, unlike the lower-level winds. We found John Wilke's rocket (14k+ and a new I record, congrats!) about 1.75 miles 20 degrees N of E fro...

The guy wasn't even wearing a helmet 😯

Congrats, David!

Yeah, with the weak signal from the bluff, we figured it was out by the windmill a mile away. Turned out that the signal was weak because the tracker was mostly subterranean. 😀

Though the flight part of the flight test wasn't successful, the av-bay was. After what looked like a clean boost at first, the nosecone came off during the coast phase, right when it was transitionin...

Thanks, guys. See you tomorrow, though I may be a little late. -Adrian

I still have some testing and production assembly still to go (with flight testing tomorrow, woo hoo!), but here's a sneak peak at the new 38mm Featherweight Av-bay: It's 2" long (with 2.5" long alum...

Yep, and Tom Rouse is the competition committee chair again...

So far, the weather models are showing 5-6 mph.