Brad Morse

Even though I can’t be there, I voted **YES** because:a.) the defacto club motto is “I’d go ahead and do that if I were you”, andb.) there is no better time to do this sort of thing. Fire danger is…   Read more»

There will be lots of NOX. If I need 8#, I’d be shocked. I think the K240 takes more like 2.5#, and I’ll probably fly it once. I’m not even sure all the parts are here?J

Thanks, Ed. I have 3 reloads 🙂 I don’t plan on flying all of them, but I *might* go twice? see you out there. I’m coming out on Friday…. Early.

Hey Batman, you can use mine, though I’ll have to give you some on-the-job training. I broke my foot (and walked about 5 miles on it at BALLS) and I’m on a very short leash. Do you have room in…   Read more»

Actually, that silver part extends up into the main compartment, too – meaning there is even MORE motor than what you see.I’m sick that I missed it. Drat.Tony, if you get it back, I want that rail button back ;-)…   Read more»

I treated myself to the matinee today. Quite good! only 1:40 long. Neil Armstrong politely declined to participate… the story was told first-hand in interviews with Collins, Lovell, Duke, Schmidt, Aldrin, Bean… I’m sure I left out one or two….   Read more»

That may be it (seasonal)… Gerlach is a really, really, really bizarre place. There are maybe 2 businesses that are walk-in types of places. One is “Bruno’s Hotel and Country Club” and the other is “Bruno’s Gas Station”. The latter…   Read more»

I can tell you that my wife and I both tried many times to get on in Gerlach. Couldn’t even hack in. Ditto for the other guys from CO out there. I wonder if it is a seasonal thing? There…   Read more»

Not to trump you, boys — but we have a -8 Iridium flare scheduled for the BALLS launch at Black Rock…. I can’t wait. I’m sitting in DIA now, headed for Reno later tonight.I’m hoping to eke into the 5…   Read more»

Mike, first of all, I would NOT worry about the heat. I think the motor tubes will be just fine. The holes won’t vent very much heat out of there, anyway.I would be concerned about how the 29mm tubes are…   Read more»

Here is another interesting “log on the fire”http://apnews.excite.com/article/20070924/D8RS0OOO1.html

There are 5 NCR guys that I am aware of going to BALLS — Eric, Kyle, Dale, Larry B., and myself. Everyone is flying at least an L, all the way up to a beefy N. It should be quite…   Read more»

Adrian, you are right on the money about MRO. The link you sent had this very famous photo http://tinyurl.com/2ueg5rHow'd the cleaning party go? I’m very sorry I missed it! it will be good to see so many of you in…   Read more»

Hubble is cool and people support it, but it didn’t excite people the way that Apollo did. I’ll turn that right around at you, though — ISS is cool, but it didn’t excite people the way HUBBLE did.Shuttle is cool,…   Read more»

…robots can collect data and take pretty pictures, but thats about it……..it’s the experience gained from flying the shuttle and building the space station that are the advancements…. I respectfully disagree, on several levels. Many of the probes didn’t just…   Read more»

Very interesting, Adrian. I’d enjoy visiting with you on your experiences sometime.Gotta check THIS out — http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060124.html that was New Horizons leaving home on an Atlas V. NH passed the moon in 9 hours! It was (and is) honkin’ right…   Read more»

…But would we HAVE those robot missions without the manned missions? PR, you know. …Gosh, I think we’d have a lot MORE of them. I once read that for manned flight, the equipment needed to be 99%+ safe — which,…   Read more»

This room has been CLAIMED. Thanks for your interest–JW

http://rouse-tech.com/images/tech_info.gifK270 uses the 54 / 2560

Tim, that K270 does look nice. Is it SU or a reload? Which hardware if it is a reload?I won’t be flying much of anything at Oktoberfest. Broken foot. I might pooch up some low and slow stuff if I…   Read more»