Warren B. Musselman

Several items. One, I am a trained wildland firefighter and was on Indian Peaks Volunteer Fire Department for 8 years. You guys did what you could with the tools that you had. Brushing the edge of the fire-front is key….   Read more»

That’s essentially a 4 grain Shuttle booster as the 5th grain was a spacer (ala Cesaroni!). I believe you’re talking in the double letter ranges… something like WX I’ve heard.W

I still haven’t figured out all I can do with the Parrot yet and I want one already. Are they calibrated to NIST-traceable standards?Warren

It is very likely that in 2010, Oktoberfest will be on the SECOND weekend in October (10-7 thru 10-10, 4 days).Joe and I discussed this at some length recently and there are a variety of reasons, one (though not most…   Read more»

As you and I have discussed John, I’d like to see a significant NCR project go to BALLS… I’d like to more formally propose that willing members of NCR step up to work on a group project for BALLS 2010….   Read more»

I’m planning on it John… hopefully we’ll be doing a 98mm project…W

I’d happily show you what I’ve got and discuss. I have the adafruit.com GPS shield and a bunch of proto shields I’m playing with. Hooking up is easy and minimal glue circuitry is required. My biggest problem is I’m an…   Read more»

I’ve been working with the Arduino for a year or so along with the GPS module and a custom board of my own with 3 axis accelerometer and baro sensor as well as telemetry downlink.

I’m definitely all for this. Conceivably the pot could end up well in the the thousands of dollars. Just within the club we had the SSS up to $380 a few years ago. While participation has been light this year…   Read more»

The funny part is, I am related to the Musselmans who started the company, but too damn distantly to do me any good! My grandfather’s uncle or something like that. They sold out to a big food corp back in…   Read more»

Great article! I’ve been doing similar projects for the last 5 years, but have never taken the time and trouble that he does on edge fraying and lining up the weave. Particularly the way he deals with the seam alignment…   Read more»

Bill Beggs in NM is the only one I know who owns the M.Warren

There is also RASAero, another freeware/open source rocket simulation package.Warren

Wait, the thrones come in guy/girl versions? Last I checked there were urinals in all of them.W

Personally, being prone to park in the middle of the flight line, that the walk to the thrones is a bit long. After all, it’s awful hard to make it to the throne in a timely manner when you’re too…   Read more»

Allowing EX motors is an intrinsic part of this Doug. We want to allow for EX motors as well as arbitrary clusters and staged birds. There even is a good plan for how to do this – the dilemma is…   Read more»

As I’ve said before Doug, it has ALWAYS been a function of programmer bandwidth. The AP Bonfire as well as pretty much all the other contests run automatically once we set them up. If they require much human intervention, they…   Read more»

From a database perspective, I think we’d need to have a table for motors used that would be linked from the flight record table via a unique ID as a one to many relationship from the flight record. I think…   Read more»

Now Joe, you know I’ve won the LCO contest 3 years running…

We’ll see what Joe says, but in general we ask for the dates high altitude windows when we apply for the waiver in November/December of the year before. Since we’ve had the windows, we generally ask for MHM, the mid-July…   Read more»