Warren B. Musselman

That was one helluva impressive flight – perfect. The recording of the original countdown was a great touch too. Like many of our generation, the voice of Shorty Powers doing a countdown gets my blood moving.Warren

Geof there are rather strict rules regarding TRA Research days that boil down to this:If you are a Tripoli member and over 18, you can fly up to your certification level on commercial motors.If you are a Tripoli member and…   Read more»

I just got home from MHM – due to preexisting responsibilities I couldn’t stay except for Friday afternoon and Saturday and indeed the weather was definitely bad today. We got off about 25 or so flights this morning before the…   Read more»

I am still committed to 8AM to noon on Saturday as LCO.Warren

Me, me, me!

Don’t feel bad – a couple years ago I bought a very nice HVLP paint gun, a trim gun, and an Paasche airbrush. Haven’t hardly painted a thing since aside from Wilke-esque white paint jobs of Kilz high solids primer…   Read more»

There is an automated program, probably many of them, that crawl the web looking for sites built with PHPNuke – the software that runs this site – and automatically creating new users. While we can prevent those user accounts from…   Read more»

Bruce Shaefer pointed this out weeks ago – it is an automated spammer that we cannot keep from creating accounts but that we have prevented from actually spamming the forums with the extra security question at login.Warren

I’m a big fan of MD rockets… specifically have a 54mm bird designed around the L330 and currently down to 54″ although I have a new Von Karmen nose for it and haven’t measured it with that nose yet. Sims…   Read more»

I name ’em whatever I feel like… if it’s close to the kit, then I seem to name ’em for the kit. If it is modified, I give ’em their own name….Tough titty to the name-purists amongst ya’.Warren

I have not yet contacted the folks that Scott referred me to, but would like to keep my request out there to folks. I should clarify that I am particularly look for folks who want side-work rather than to work…   Read more»

Men have twice the number of rod cells in their retina than women providing better low light vision. Women on the other hand have more than double the number of cone cells than men providing far better color vision. I…   Read more»

That’s for damn sure. This is the best thing that could have happened to ensure we launch in May. Let it be 30″+ out at the North Site.Warren

I sent you a PM with my contact info Scott.Warren

I have both 1010 and 1515 rails at my house in Longmont.Warren

The new members are spammers – Jeremiah and I have succeeded in keeping them from posting and mining user data, but we can’t stop the automated sign-up yet. We’re working on it.W

If you want them synchronized, that’s different. You’d have to tweak the timing pots to get equivalent timing as what I was talking about was two independent circuits with a common power supply.Why not use a single 555 with a…   Read more»

That’s easy – a 556 has two 555’s inside it. Just duplicate the circuit. The 7812 is a 12V voltage regulator and the 1N4001 and 220 uF cap on the left are the power supply circuit. Everythiing else is the…   Read more»

“This New Ocean”W

I posted a note about the phone being turned off on the Composite Rocketry group and almost immediately got an email from Curtis. PF is alive and well and still very much in business.W