Jeffrey Joe Hinton

Bring Dinty Moore, I’ll bring a grill. Last I heard, Kandy’s Kitchen wasn’t happening and the Hot Dog guy was taken out of business by the Home Depot crowd. Or maybe it was the Loew’s crowd. Probably the Pawnee Mafia….   Read more»

Actually, finding the speed of cardboard or plywood or fiberglass or carbon fiber is a very worthy endeavor and I’d do that if I were you. But from a safe distance, of course. Let ’em fly!

Doug, Yes. Mike, Yes. Lots of flights planned – let’s have a safe and good launch.

Weather permitting and if all of the other et ceteras fall into place, we plan on setting the range Thursday starting sometime after noon. Pretty sure Doug will already be on site setting up his pad and camera pole. Pretty…   Read more»

Simple rules of thumb for parachutes and shock cords, regardless of what they are attached to (Nose cone, booster section) – four to five times the lenght of the body tube/rocket. And If longer fits, I go with the longer….   Read more»

Night launch arrangements take more than a phone call – there are specific exemptions that need to be added to a waiver and a lot of extra legalities to deal with. Keeping flights to Class One and below is the…   Read more»

I favor dog barf and then a kevlar pad wrapped around the chute like a tortilla holding burrito filling.

Yes! RSVP with Ed so we have a good idea of how many donuts/bagels and coffee/OJ to have on hand. We’ll be cleaning and testing and orgainizing and making arrangements for range set up for Oktoberfest. Thanks.

Every year it’s the same answer – we’ll have to see what the prairie looks like. It’s been very green and wild and now it’s gotten hot and dry – lots of fuel for a run-away combustion scenario and then…   Read more»

Regardless of the level of Certification attempt, I’d sure like to know about it and end up with the paperwork so everything/everyone’s gets sent in together. Yes, L2 tests for NAR and TRA can be administered on site. TRA members…   Read more»

Just curious, but where did the August 29th launch date idea come from? Not that it matters but I’ll be at the 6th Annual Warbirds Over the Rockies, Colorado’s Premier Remote Control Model Airplane Show. For info try http://www.warbirdsovertherockies.com

Cessaroni motors provide all of the POWER, smoke and noise anyone could ask for. And the clean up is easy too. And there are other options as well. LOKI motors have huge thrust, long burn and also sparks if you’re…   Read more»

YES! I was thinking you might be headed to Balls instead of visiting with your club here.

Thanks everyone for stepping up and making the launch happen. I realize I didn’t pass the petty cash bag to Jon Skuba, Launch Director in my absence, to reimburse trailer tows. It ain’t much but helps offset the chore. And…   Read more»

As long as those dogs can hunt down a rocket in the Pawnee Grasslands, there’s room on the membership roster for ’em. Great news John!

Great site for great photos every day.

That’s the kind of graphic sexy I can relate to. Nice shot Adrian!!!

2 Nautical Mile radius on the 20,000′ AGL waiver and it gets extended to 5 Nautical Mile radius for the “windows” we used Friday and Sunday.

Corrections made. Apologies to Scott, Ken and Mark. I just hope someone wins this outright so I don’t have to calculate the N-sec. used to get there in a tie breaker. Could be too much for my bean counter and…   Read more»

Still, a tremendous boost and I’m thrilled you recoverd the bird. Looking forward to seeing it fly again in July.