Warren B. Musselman

If it's any consolation, while I got my L1 first try, it took me 5 tries to get my L2. Along the way I lost one rocket (probable successful cert, but it never has been found), core sampled another so ...

Sounds like it was good that I didn't come out today - I still ended up freezing the nuggets most of the way off by wandering around on my roof trying to find a place to mount a 15' mast with my anemo...

Joe is one of the best rocket bird-dogs in the club - he's found a few of mine too. Warren

I've towed enough trailers to know... tongue weight is generally 1/3 of total load - our case more like 1/5 or 1/6. You need a beefy vehicle and expect to get crappy gas mileage. Warren

The crux issue is do you have a 2" ball, able to handle 600-800 pounds tongue weight and have a 4 or 5 inline plug, 5 pin pentagonal or 7 pin round style wiring plug? Warren

I have a couple sewn kevlar harnesses that have more than 20 ejection events on them and if I run em through the washing machine, they come out basically looking like new. W

A zipper is when deployment occurs at high speed (and sometimes not so high) where the shock cord or recovery harness slams up against the side of the airframe and either splits or rips down through t...

I can shrink it a tad more... and will. As for the nose cone John, I've done a couple including helping out on the Delta II project. That was a stack of disks of styrofoam glued up to the overall size...

A full-sized Nike-Black Brant comes in hot from 900 miles down to 25000' AGL before popping the drogue chute which then pulls the 48' main out directly. The chute pops at Mach 2+. How's that for a jus...

I haven't done anything but zipperless in 3 years... Warren

I would be more than happy to hold a vacuum-bagging class as well. Perhaps we'll discuss the whole concept of NCR University? Warren

I see no problem with those changes myself. Warren

I'd like to hear if there has been some kind of rule change. I've frequently gone to the north site and other nearby places in the grasslands to sight-in my rifles and do a little plinking over the la...

I used a food-saver for years before I stepped up to a full vacuum system. Best for use on fins to be honest, although I have done a few airframe with it. Biggest problem with airframes is you end up ...

Do be aware that we fly on federal land - the National Forest Service administers it. The rules are quite different. Firearms are explicitly allowed to be used anywhere on the grasslands subject to th...