Chris LaPanse

Actually, there are specific scheduled launch dates. You can see them in the launch schedule on the left side of the website. Our next launch is on July 11, and we typically have one every month (ther...

We'll gladly launch smaller rockets all day long, and it's also fun to watch the bigger ones, even if you aren't flying them. There isn't any launch fee for low power as far as I know, and you should ...

OK, using a very quick and dirty rocksim, I just got an estimated altitude of 6800 feet. Rocksim usually estimates on the high side, but either of those two altitudes still seems plausible.

I don't know - 7400 feet sounds almost believable, off the top of my head here. You did have an L730 and 3 small Js powering your rocket. That's 4700Ns total, near to a full L. My 4" AIM-120C (34lbs l...

I'll definitely be there, though my L2 has been delayed due to excessive homework. It's basically structurally complete, but recovery is still unfinished, as is paint. It'll be ready for oktoberfest. ...

Oh, and with the balloon technique, you don't even need mylar. The balloon releases just fine on its own.

Very nice 😀

Chris, Do you remember what the tube weighed? Did you wrap the carbon over cardboard, or a fully-removable mandrel? I did it using my 29/360 case as a mandrel (wrapped it in mylar, then CF, then more...

Here's the tube after it came out. I sanded it a bit and hit the middle part with some clear coat. It's almost 13" long, and 29 grams. It seems much stiffer and stronger than it needs to be. But I...

Sure. I'll tell him to contact you.

Looking at some of my dad's shots, it's hard to tell, but it's possible that it came off as a drag separation right after booster burnout. It looks like it gets shorter at that point, but it's hard to...

I'm planning an 18" PML chute (huge spill hole) on an I altitude attempt sometime this summer (You aren't safe John ;)) Let's just say that my current sim puts me in excess of the current Tripoli reco...

Mine (Cirrus) was on a 24" chute, with a measured descent rate of 25 feet per second, and a descent time of around 500 seconds. If I were to try it again, I'd probably go a bit smaller, more around an...

A Cirrus well built on a healthy I will do it.

It's the standard one with most any newer 29mm set.