Bret Packard

What is the estimated altitude on that shot?

Just to follow up here, I hope most if not all of you made it out. The flying conditions while I was there, Friday afternoon through Saturday, were the best I can remember in years. Light and variable winds on…   Read more»

Anyone close to the site have an update on conditions? We’re going on 3 weeks now that the ground has been too wet down here for concrete or asphalt, so I’m still expecting excellent conditions up there from a fire…   Read more»

Not sure what to expect at this point. Down here in the southern part of Denver we haven’t seen dry ground in a couple of weeks. Good for flying but tough if you are trying to finish building a parking…   Read more»

You can do an awful lot of great DD practice with I motors, that way it isn’t new when you do your L2. OR, what I did was build a 4″ rocket that can fly either way. I certed on…   Read more»

Great job Mike. Here’s to hoping we have alot more oppotunities to fly next year.

I would vote to carry over. Normally I know it’s get it done early in case of cancelled launches, but this year has obviously been unreasonably bad for flying.

My last dance brought on a hail storm that did about $6K in damage to my car, so I’m a bit hesitant. I assume barring more significant rain we probably don’t need to rush any new rocket paint jobs?

Please post if someone schedules a mix gathering. I would definitely like to attend.

Great shots Mike!

We left early this morning (Sunday). My co-pilot Whitney wasn’t up for sitting around watching the wind blow with my fingers crossed. Did any of the big projects fly?

If Warren can’t make it Saturday I will move my LCO slot up to 10-12.

Looks like you guys may have an epic day. Hope so. Sadly I can’t make it up for this one and I am seriously bummed. Good luck to all who are competing.

Really no idea on a launch date. I’m really trying to evaluate and understand each step in the process, so it takes awhile. I don’t want to just glue it together and fly it. I want to end up with…   Read more»

Awesome James! Congratulations to you and the rocketry community.

Let me know what reloads you have for the AMW 54/1750 case and how much. I may be interested as I have that case and a few rockets that like it.

It was literally perfect up util about 1pm. Blue skies with a few puffs of clouds here and there. Whitney and I put up 9 rockets, with our Nike Smoke going over 5K, and never had to walk more than…   Read more»

Maybe I should move up north. CLEARLY my rain dance is better than the one you guys do up there. 😛

So it rained hard down here south of denver last night, clearly I’m doing my part with the rain dance. Anyting up north?

Whitney has assured me that it will rain Wednesday and Thursday, so we should be good to go 🙂