Chris LaPanse

as you get visuals that look cool. The greenies have me really interested. I do not think any -- except for the sparkies fire hazard -- are really detrimental to the environment. I'm still eying a L2...

Don't get me wrong, I like Skidmarks, I just don't like them where we fly for the aforementioned reasons of fire danger. Unless the ground is snow covered or it is actively raining, I just don't trust...

The flight looked good - it had an incredible amount of wing flex though. Looks like it was cut short (to just over 3 hours) due to weather, but other than that, everything appears to have gone fine. ...

If I remember right, it should be less than a year. It's certainly an impressive aircraft. The version that they're currently testing has a max takeoff weight of just under 500,000 pounds, and should ...

I tend to use a drogue, and I also tend on the big side for my mains. The exception is my AMRAAM, but I have the largest chute I can fit in there already and it still comes down at ~24fps. If the 48" ...

That igniter looked huge. I have to wonder if that is what caused the failure. Looking at the video, it doesn't look like it overpressurized, since the forward closure blew before significant thrust. ...

It must be an extremely high speed video - watch how quickly it ignites on the main video to compare. I do wonder whether the darkening is more a product of the igniter burning out, or whether it is s...

4 grain is the standard Shuttle load - the full load for Ares will be a 5 grain. Here's a video of a static test of the 5 grain: And some high-speed video up the core showing the igniter firing:

If you consider the alphabet to wrap around (I.E. x..y..z..aa..ab..ac..), the SRBs would be a 1.24*10^9 AD 10 million using CTI notation (1.24*10^9 newton second AD10000000). Assuming I did the math r...

Very nice.

I'd be interested in a group project, though I probably wouldn't be able to make it to BALLS.

The 1080i HD version of the video is up on the NASA website now. This picture's pretty awesome too:

Agreed - on my 17k flight for example, my two baro altimeters (not the same model though) were 1200 feet off of each other (one read 17,002, one read 15,800). The GPS on board (Garmin Astro) showed 17...

What about GPS altitude for the higher ones?

Definitely. A dual thrust Imax similar to the M1300 I flew, but with an extra grain or two would be one heck of an altitude motor. An Imax moonburner could be interesting too...