John A. Wilke

Sean – how high was flight #1 vs. flight #2? did you go appreciably higher on the second boost?The gremlins come out and play at mach 2+ and ~20K altitude… it took me a few swings at the plate to…   Read more»

Sean, one way to get around the joiner nut on the eyebolt is to use an eye nut http://www.mcmaster.com/#eye-nuts/=7dh21k You run that down tight onto a piece of all-thread.. You can torque them down incredibly tight, use lock nuts, and…   Read more»

John, hats off to you and Mark for going out of your way to give credit where credit is due. I didn’t know Edward had contributed so much to the project — but I am not surprised. Edward is a…   Read more»

How was the condition? I’ve core sampled (“prairie punched”) glass rockets a time or two, and they have been just fine….

For those interested, Sue’s daughter is involved in a “race for the cure”. Tax deductible donations can be made here http://www.the3day.org/site/TR/2010/SanDiegoEvent2010?px=4984464&pg=personal&fr_id=1469&et=FgLeXg78_g3fr7XjkMNj_A..&s_tafId=237737

Could be the new galactic headquarters for 3 Dogs Rocketry!!! 8)That is awesome you did that Mike – Very nice thing to put up there for others to use.

No worries. The PerfectFlite guy (Peter) printed his circuit boards before he got my comments… that is why the boards don’t show the 24 seconds but the manual does.That is a is a decent little altimeter if you aren’t wanting…   Read more»

Scott, there is a 24 second mach delay…. Go to http://www.perfectflite.com/Downloads/HA45Kman.pdf and scroll down to page 8 of the manual (which is page 11 of the downloaded .pdf) You lay the jumper horizontally across J3 and J4 on the pins…   Read more»

Invite the kids to our next launch 8) our own fire department!

We had a very severe storm come through Windsor and it headed exactly at the N site. There were several funnel clouds up around Nunn. The rain was intense, I sure would not be surprised if an inch fell…

Depends a bit on how you physically constructed things – if your ebay hangs down into the aft section, I like to tape the charge to the eyebolt so it is held away from the walls.This is a bigger deal…   Read more»

Me an altitude guy? Where did you get that idea.TonyI got that idea because I haven’t ever gotten w/in 10K of your best shot. Bring your “A” game to the playa this year, though 😀 I have an interesting project…   Read more»

Wow – that sounds like a really nice combination (LOUD, easy cleanup, long burning)…. how is performance? I know you are an altitude guy 8)Will we see this at BALLS? There is a rather large herd of NCR guys coming…   Read more»

Gotcha covered, Ron – I brought in ten of them (they will be at my place this coming Thur) but 4 of them have been spoken for already… I’m beginning to think I should’ve brought in a few more?They are…   Read more»

Tell me where to go for the next launch. I thought they were all sold out.But I guess they dont go on sale till 6 weeks befor the launch. I guess.May be the bigest thing to go up in a…   Read more»

SCOTTEVANS wrote: How do you get tickets? I thought they were all sold out. Do you have to have tickets to be on the causeway?We bought a tour package that took us onto the causeway… it was about 2x the…   Read more»

Not to hijack a thread, but I must tell you all about Atlantis. At T+8 hours…. I am still SPEECHLESS. It was extradordinary. I just don’t know what else to say. My wife and I were on the causeway, about…   Read more»

“!!!!!WAIT!!!!!” “TAKE ME WITH YOU!!!!!” 8) 8)Plane leaves at 10:45 tomorrow!!Incidentally, Sean S will also be viewing the launch. NASA, in a stroke of insensitivity, won’t let Sean OR I LCO. Drat.I wonder if there really IS a button that…   Read more»

I’m going to miss the cleanup, but I have the mother of all excuses 8) I will be in Florida for THIS http://apnews.excite.com/article/20100511/D9FKRM981.html

If our fire had been caused by a Skidmark after we specifically said we weren’t going to fly Skidmarks… Yikes. I can’t even imagine.I respectfully disagree in that it appears they had the foresight (not the hindsight) to preclude these…   Read more»