Brad Morse

While I won’t be able to make it Saturday, I thought I’d share a strange factoid… Last weekend a few of us NCR types picked up perhaps 50# (roughly one bushel) of spent ammo casings out there. No foolin’.

so what is the SSSS motor this year? I wasn’t at the meeting… did someone say I600? I am going to fly an I600 for the alphabet contest, assuming I don’t stumble along the way… Since I biffed two A’s,…   Read more»

All those details are being worked thru now. NAR / TRA sent out something that basically said “don’t tear up your LEUP”, “don’t be rude to your BATFE agent”, “Details getting hammered out”, etc. Of course there could still be…   Read more»

Indeed, this is awesome. I wouldn’t be counting my K motors before they are hatched, though. Some of you are members of other forums, and you may have seen Anthony Cesaroni’s comments – he said “I’d be very surprised if…   Read more»

Does anyone know how to track down Ed Krohne? He actually has a reload for this – IIRC the J1500 was a Kosdon East creation? (Ed used to fly with us many years ago). He had a rocket named “Whiplash”,…   Read more»

OK, maybe a little bit scared – but I’m not admitting it to this bunch 😯

The offer still stands, if anyone wants to build a EX motor for it, you’re welcome to borrow the casingDougI ain’t skeered… I’m on it. Let me crank some numbers. I’ll extend my J570 rocket and put it in there…   Read more»

I like it! A J1500? can we build a load for that? Do you have nozzles / closures? Sounds like a nice, gentle boost 😯

Mike, are you absoultely certain on the CG/CP? it is so very hard to figure on a complex build like that… all the motors pull the GG way back.Regarding instant ignition – the Cesaroni loads are the ticket.. that pyro…   Read more»

I think John brought this from Iowa :?It was rather “Iowish” out there today. Far colder at the site than it was in town.This alphabet contest is interesting. For those of you not in attendance, Wilke biffed 2 “A” shots…   Read more»

I posted a note about the phone being turned off on the Composite Rocketry group and almost immediately got an email from Curtis.W

I wish he’d “almost immediately” ship me the nosecone he’s owed me for over a year.

Regarding shutting off the phone – he answered it perhaps every tenth time you called him… when it went into voice mail, the greeting always said the voice mail was FULL and messages weren’t being accepted.I didn’t see any of…   Read more»

Mike, I probably have one of these closures – call me or email me at john dot wilke at cpsagu.com

Awesome. We’ll see if the weather cooperates?Many years ago, during the very first or second MHM – when John Hall was prefect – we had to cancel MHM because it was too dry. It is obviously ery dry now… hopefully…   Read more»

I think this is an intriguing contest that could get interesting late in the year. It would be very below average to have to start over from an L…

If you want to jump in I’ll supply you with all the little motors you need….. Not joking either. I have over 200 Estes motors. GWow, that’d be awesome! I think I may try to zip from about A-D at…   Read more»

We bought a home west of Windsor. I’ll try and make the Atlas launch on 3/7 though I likely won’t have anything to fly (unless I jump into that alphabet contest, which sounds interesting?????)

Someone put my rocket stuff at the way, very-very-very back of the storage room, and it has about a trainload of boxes of stuff in front of it. It may as well be on Mars right now. I was able…   Read more»

OK, maybe I’m a ditz but I didn’t see the alphabet contest rules anywhere… (I looked under “Contests” on the left side of this page).I did have a question on this, though – can a contestant borrow rockets from another…   Read more»

Bruce, we’ll get you to the N site some moonless evening and you’ll get the bug again… Now that I’m baaaaaaaack, I hope to get the scopes out often! I built a 16″ Dobsonian that has spent more than a…   Read more»