Brad Morse

Jim Wilkerson had a MONSTER boost on an N1100? at BALLS a few years ago. I was there and saw it firsthand. Jim has the current M record, and he is a very talented flyer. I later inquired as to…   Read more»

Warren, two areas of comment. First of all, the Hartsel site does *not* offer a 20% advantage. I have flown my G and H record rockets on the same motors at both venues. My Hartsel “G” shot was 9% better…   Read more»

Yes indeed, Kyle is doing most of the heavy lifting (literally and figuratively) as he built a booster and I am recycling an old rocket into a dart. I bought a miter saw (I now own something like 4? tools)…   Read more»

No, Ed, 144 D12’s would be a gross…

Don’t tempt Dale like that…

Wow. There seems to be some pent up demand 🙂 I hope to fly my 75mm altitude attempt but I need all kinds of things to fall into place (35K window, no jet stream overhead, blue skies, etc.)Besides that, K….   Read more»

http://www.raytheon.com/technology/rtn08_intercept/Watch all the way through – screen goes dark partway. Yowza!

Cosmic debris is job security for the folks at NORAD. Anti-missile defense and satelite hunting are all parts of the same madness that let Skylab fall because we weren’t ready to share information/technology. Re-entry is still guesswork for uncontrolled objects….   Read more»

[I hear we are going to try and shoot it down to ummm, send a message…… 8Ohope it works The Chinese shot down a satellite, and it was much higher up. It caused a great deal of angst because the…   Read more»

Bruce, have you ever checked out the Iridium flares on that website? On some nights, you can see several of them. I saw a -8 magnitude the other night, it was clearly visible through a nearby moon and the streetlights….   Read more»

Right at the top of the link Joe mentions above you can find info on the errant satellite (at least it was on there earlier this week)… there is a neat chart showing the decay of the orbit, as well…   Read more»

The kitty has been rolled forward and amounts to $300 including this years 5 entrants. New rockets are required for the new year.WWarren, your Feb 8 post (above) indicates the SSS pot is $300. Has it grown from the posting…   Read more»

Guys, I’m good with whatever y’all decide. I’ll be there at MHM and would love to give my 20$ to someone 🙂 This will be nearly impossible to sort in this forum, though.If there is one thing I want to…   Read more»

My brains must have been somewhere else or I must have misunderstood this when we discussed it — I’m personally not in the “multiple rockets” corner. As noted, it raises lots of enforceability issues on what constitutes a “different” rocket….   Read more»

OK, I wasn’t at the meeting (being geographically challenged) and hopefully this sort of debate occured at the meeting… but for my part, I’m not too keen on the “multiple rockets” thing. If I change a noseccone, is that a…   Read more»

Warren, I don’t think it was me that was there when your altimeter fired on the pad. I believe what you are saying, but I do not recall being there.FWIW, I’m a single-port kinda guy. I keep intricate logs. I’ve…   Read more»

Still well under the upper end specified by Missileworks …..WI’ll confess that I have never seen the upper end specified in Jim’s documents? FWIW, the 3 x 1/16th inch holes are nearly 6X what the formula recommends — though I…   Read more»

Warren, the ejected motors would be part of the flight profile. They would be in their own pods with parachutes.-Dale N

Dale, are you going to fly this at MHM? Sounds GREAT!

Dale, I think you should get extra credit for doing all the above on the same flight 😉

Too pretty to fly! Is Art involved? Goodness………. I see stuff like that and I feel like a hack 😯 IN all sincerity, that is gorgeous. Scott Harless does awesome work like that as well. VERY nice!

Mike. that is a great analysis and a lesson well-learned. Sounds like a positive ID of the problem – Thanks for the update—